How Smart Is Your Blog?
Posted by admin on January 22, 2008 · 11 Comments
I was wandering aimlessly around teh internets the other day and saw an interesting thing on a blog I was visiting. It was this graphic:
Well, obviously I knew I was in the wrong place and got the hell out of there in a hurry, but not before wiping the drool off my chin and clicking the link below this odd looking graphic that I could barely comprehend.
It seems as though there is this site on the www that can analyze any blog or website and let you know if it's over your head. You put in the url and click, and then it tells you the reading level of the text on the site.
I don't know how I had ended up at a site with a reading level of genius, but I snagged the graphic just to prove it. I was, in fact, reading something written at a genius level. Well, for a minute I was, then I stole the graphic and left as fast as I could. No sense in wasting my time, right?
So anyway, I went to this site the tells you what reading level your blog is and I put in the url of Absolutely True. And I was truly amazed at the analysis of http://www.absolutelytrue.com. This site is so accurate it's scary.
Here's what it has to say about my writing skills, or lack thereof:
So, if ever you feel that you're in over your head at one of the "genius" sites, you can always come here to lose a few brain cells. It works, I'm here to tell you, it works. If you're having one of those days when you just feel too smart, or you think you have it all figured out, come on back and I'll fix you right up.
And I'd like to thank a special troll for bringing to my attention the fact that I am truly illiterate, and inspiring this post. Trolls rock!
Update: Here's the Blog Readability Test
I did that the other day and it gave me a genius reading level. I think whoever did my results were drinking a little too much that day.:))
Gerri can I ask you a favor? Can you change the link to my blog in your sidebar to www. before it? It won’t work without the www. in front of it. Thanks, Tammy
Tammy: You are brilliant, but I think this test is wacky
Sorry about the error on your link! I’ve fixed it now.
Wow…I don’t feel so bad about my Elementary School reading level now LOL
Nah Fab, don’t feel bad. Not everyone can attain my level of retardment.
My blog’s has smartz.
Stan: That would probably be because, unlike me, you are literate.
Strangely enough I’m must really be stupid as I can’t seem to find the link to have my blogging abilities analyzed. Help?
ABAN: That’s because I was too stupid to include it. I will try to find it though.
You can try the reading level test. Not the same, but it has the same effect.
http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx
asdf: Umm.. yep, it is the same thing. You’ve provided the same link that I did at the end of this post.
Note: The image that I show for my blog is a spoof of the service.