Table 2.
Readability scores of websites according to their category
| Reada-bility formula | Mean (SD) | p-value | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News | Governmental | Commercial | Organizational | Educa-tional* | ||||||||||
| FRE | 51.8 | (7.2) | Fairly difficult | 44.5 | (14.1) | Difficult | 52.8 | (6.0) | Fairly difficult | 42.2 | (13.4) | Difficult | 45.5 | 0.212 |
| Gunning Fog | 12.9 | (2.2) | Hard to read | 13.4 | (2.5) | Hard to read | 12.2 | (1.2) | Hard to read | 13.9 | (2.7) | Hard to read | 14.2 | 0.687 |
| FKGL | 11.0 | (2.1) | 11th grade | 11.6 | (2.4) | 11th grade | 10.4 | (1.5) | 10th grade | 11.9 | (2.4) | 12th grade | 12.7 | 0.681 |
| SMOG | 9.9 | (1.5) | 10th grade | 10.5 | (2.0) | 10th grade | 9.4 | (0.9) | 9th grade | 10.6 | (1.9) | 10th grade | 11.4 | 0.596 |
*
There was only one website in this category.
SD=standard deviation, FKGL=Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, SMOG=Simple Measure of Gobbledygook, FRE=Flesch Reading Ease Score.