Table 3.
Top 20 statin websites’ category, HONcodea presence or absence, accuracy, credibility, and readability.
| Website rank | Category | HONcode Seal | Accuracy | Credibility | Readability (SMOGb score) |
| 1 | Commercial | Yes | 20 | 6 | 10.7 |
| 2 | Not-for-profit | Yes | 9 | 11 | 11.3 |
| 3 | Not-for-profit | No | 23 | 9 | 12.5 |
| 4 | Commercial | Yes | 16 | 6 | 13 |
| 5 | Commercial | No | 10 | 4 | 7.7 |
| 6 | Not-for-profit | No | 15 | 7 | 13 |
| 7 | Commercial | No | 14 | 10 | 9.6 |
| 8 | Not-for-profit | No | 13 | 5 | 10.8 |
| 9 | Not-for-profit | No | 16 | 11 | 10.2 |
| 10 | Commercial | Yes | 11 | 10 | 8.6 |
| 11 | Commercial | Yes | 16 | 9 | 9.4 |
| 12 | Commercial | No | 13 | 6 | 11 |
| 13 | Not-for-profit | No | 17 | 9 | 8.9 |
| 14 | Not-for-profit | No | 8 | 7 | 9 |
| 15 | Not-for-profit | No | 8 | 7 | 10.3 |
| 16 | Media | No | 8 | 4 | 7.8 |
| 17 | Not-for-profit | Yes | 16 | 11 | 6.7 |
| 18 | Commercial | Yes | 19 | 8 | 9.7 |
| 19 | Commercial | Yes | 21 | 7 | 9.2 |
| 20 | Media | No | 14 | 2 | 8.1 |
aHONcode: Health on the Net Code of Conduct.
bSMOG: Simple Measure of Gobbledegook.