Flesch-Kincaid grade, Gunning Fog, passive voice detection, sentence length, and improvement suggestions.
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Analyzes your content using four established readability formulas — Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog, and SMOG Index — plus passive voice detection, long sentence flagging, and complex word analysis.
For most web content, aim for 60–70 (8th–9th grade level). Blog posts, news, and product descriptions read best at 65+. Technical documentation can go lower. Plain language guidelines often target 70+ for consumer-facing content.
Indirectly, yes. Google doesn't score readability directly, but clearer content leads to lower bounce rates, higher dwell time, and more shares — all behavioral signals that correlate with better rankings. Readable content is simply better content.