Readability Score Checker

Check how easy your content actually is to read, in seconds. This free tool gives you a readability score along with sentence and paragraph length flags, so you can see exactly where your writing might be losing readers before you publish it.

Why this matters

Most business content is written more formally than it needs to be, long sentences, jargon, paragraphs that go on for six lines without a break. It might read fine to you, because you already understand the subject. A visitor skimming your page on their phone, deciding in a few seconds whether to keep reading or leave, doesn’t have that advantage.

Readability also matters to Google indirectly. Content that’s hard to follow tends to get abandoned quickly, and Google notices when people bounce straight back to the search results. Simple, clear writing keeps people on the page longer, which is good for them and good for you.

How to use it

1. Paste in your content
2. Get an instant Flesch reading ease score
3. See which sentences are too long or too complex
4. Simplify and re-check until your score sits in a comfortable range

What a good score looks like

• Aim for a Flesch score of 60 or above for most website and blog content, roughly the reading level of a bright 13 to 15 year old
• Keep most sentences under 25 words. If a sentence needs a comma to hold three separate ideas together, it’s usually better as two sentences
• Break up any paragraph running longer than four lines. Walls of text get skipped, not read
• Watch out for passive voice overuse. “We completed the project” reads better than “the project was completed by us”
• Explain jargon the first time you use it, or avoid it altogether. Your customers usually aren’t familiar with industry terms, even if you use them daily

Service pages and technical content can sit slightly lower than 60 if the subject genuinely demands more precise language, but most business content has no excuse for being hard to read.

Want your whole page reviewed, not just readability?

Readability is one part of getting content to actually perform. Search intent, keyword usage, heading structure and factual accuracy all matter too. If you’d like a proper review of your content as a whole, our SEO services include a full content audit alongside the technical side.

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