In Microsoft Word, there’s a little-known feature about the application Readability Statistics that allows a user to display readability statistics as a part of the spelling and grammar check.

Does your content’s readability affect how Google ranks you in search results? Let’s take a look at what the experts say. Every SEO professional knows content is king. And not all content is created ...

Institutional review boards (IRBs) are charged with safeguarding potential research subjects with limited literacy but may have an inadvertent role in promulgating unreadable consent forms. We ...

Psychologists love to measure things, and perhaps nothing has been measured as much by psychologists as reading—both texts and readers. Multiple different instruments measuring text readability have ...

But where did the number come from? It was generated by a mathematical readability formula. Invented in the 1920s after science teachers expressed a desire for more simplified texts for their students ...

How does readability affect page rank? We take a look at the Flesch Reading Ease Test, plus investigate readability for search engines vs real visitors. I first came across the Flesch Reading Ease ...