Title: Readability
Last modified: May 12, 2020

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# Readability

 *  Resolved [DonCoryon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doncoryon/)
 * (@doncoryon)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/readability-6/)
 * I have over thirty writers and a handful of editors. None of them are happy with
   the readability scoring system. Is this beta? Are we using it wrong?
 * It seems to be almost random. But once it gives a score, it’s hell to change 
   it even a point or two. I once shorten ever single sentence in a 500 word post,
   and the score went lower.
 * Can you please provide some guidance on how to use this tool?

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 *  [Hassan Akhtar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaxan/)
 * (@khaxan)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/readability-6/#post-12824176)
 * Hi Don,
 * Thanks for using the plugin. Our readability score uses the Flesch Kincaid algorithm.
   There are many online tools that can help you find the Flesch Kincaid score of
   a blog post, the score provided by one of these tools should be roughly the same
   as SmartCrawl’s readability score. I say roughly because there can be implementation
   differences. Please let me know if this is not the case on your site.
 * Cheers,
    Hassan
 *  Thread Starter [DonCoryon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doncoryon/)
 * (@doncoryon)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/readability-6/#post-12844251)
 * One of my editors found one of the specific bug.
 * When they make bullet lists, unless there is a period at the end of each list
   item, it counts until it gets to another period. Throwing off readability.
 * To recreate. Make a large bulleted list. Do not use periods for each list item.
   Run the readability score. Then put a period after each list item. The readability
   improves.
 * Periods do not always go after a list item, so this is a bug.
 *  [Hassan Akhtar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/khaxan/)
 * (@khaxan)
 * [6 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/readability-6/#post-12846260)
 * You’re right, that sounds like a bug. We’ll get it fixed, thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [DonCoryon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doncoryon/)
 * (@doncoryon)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/readability-6/#post-13193174)
 * Any update?

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