Table 5.
Top 10 Websites According to Website Traffic (Alexa Rank).
| Website name | Website rank based on web traffic (Alexa Rank) | Proportion of content areas covered (%) | DISCERN (%) | LIDA |
HON code (%) | Readability |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Usability (%) | Reliability (%) | Flesch reading ease | Flesch–Kincaid reading grade level | |||||
| Wikipedia | 1 (5) | 26.7 | 72.22 | 71.3 | 79.6 | 92.9 | 18.5 | 14.5 |
| NIDDK | 2 (153) | 60.0 | 80 | 73.1 | 79.6 | 82.1 | 69.1 | 6.7 |
| Wiki How | 3 (179) | 6.7 | 68.89 | 74.1 | 85.2 | 78.6 | 58.3 | 8.9 |
| Health Line–CKD | 4 (529) | 20.0 | 67.78 | 74.1 | 74.1 | 96.4 | 50.1 | 8.8 |
| Web MD | 5 (599) | 33.3 | 71.11 | 84.3 | 85.2 | 100.0 | 68.0 | 7.2 |
| Medical Dictionary | 6 (636) | 40.0 | 65.56 | 52.8 | 44.4 | 67.9 | 35.0 | 13.1 |
| Mayo clinic | 7 (1240) | 46.7 | 77.78 | 76.9 | 77.8 | 100.0 | 48.9 | 10.5 |
| CDC | 8 (2200) | 16.7 | 77.78 | 81.5 | 85.2 | 89.3 | 57.5 | 9.2 |
| MedScape | 9 (2470) | 16.7 | 77.78 | 72.2 | 77.8 | 96.4 | 29.8 | 13.8 |
| Medical News Today | 10 (2610) | 33.3 | 83.33 | 68.5 | 72.2 | 100.0 | 48.4 | 10.3 |
Note. NIDDK = National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases; CKD = chronic kidney disease; CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.