Your words · Readability
Your words are hard work to read
Visitors skim. Long sentences and long words get skipped, so your key points may be missed.
- Applies to
- every page
- Typical severity
- medium
- Effect on conversions
- medium
- Effort to fix
- Quick to fix
What to look for
Flesch reading ease under 50 across at least 120 words of body copy.
AgoraScan measures this automatically on every page it audits, on desktop and mobile.
Based on
- Plain-English writing guidance
- Flesch reading ease
Related checks
Your wordsBig blocks of text are hard to skimMost people skim web pages. Long paragraphs get skipped, so your best points may never be read.Your wordsYour words are harder to follow than neededPlain words are understood faster by everyone. If people have to work at it, many will give up.Your wordsYour section headings don't tell people anythingPeople skim headings to decide what to read. Headings like 'Why us' give them nothing to go on.
Does your site pass this check?
AgoraScan checks this and the rest of the checklist on your pages, with screenshots of anything it finds. The first scan is free.