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https://kenyansapplyingtousuniversities.com/
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Improve site readability #39

Open dchege711 opened 2 months ago

dchege711 commented 2 months ago

Crawled the site using https://www.experte.com/readability-checker, and here are the Flesch scores:

URL Flesch Score
/college-guide/03-what-are-us-universities-looking-for-in-applicants/ 49
/college-guide/05-organizing-information-about-your-extracurricular-activities/ 53
/college-guide/15-financial-aid-applications/ 54
/college-guide/10-when-considering-a-university-what-should-you-look-for/ 54
/college-guide/11-college-access-programs/ 55
/college-guide/02-what-will-you-gain-from-us-universities/ 57
/college-guide/13-ea-scea-ed-and-rd/ 59
/tags/kenya-vs-us-university/ 60
/about/ 61
/college-guide/09-examples-of-us-universities-that-kenyans-have-attended-on-scholarships/ 61
/college-guide/ 62
/college-guide/12-high-school-transcript-school-report-and-letters-of-recommendation/ 63
/blog-posts/2018-08-06-to-kenyan-parents-an-argument-for-sending-your-child-to-a-us-college/ 66
/college-guide/07-tests-that-you-need-to-take/ 66
/ 67
/college-guide/08-test-preparation-resources/ 68
/college-guide/04-self-evaluation/ 68
/college-guide/17-the-i20-form-sevis-fee-and-visa-interview/ 69
/blog-posts/ 71
/college-guide/01-timeline-of-the-application-process/ 71
/college-guide/16-receiving-admissions-decisions/ 72
/college-guide/14-common-application-essays-and-writing-supplements/ 72
/blog-posts/2017-06-11-studying-your-way-to-nigh-perfect-scores/ 74
/college-guide/00-faq/ 77
/college-guide/18-coming-to-the-us-travel-arrangements/ 77
/college-guide/06-activities-that-you-can-be-doing-alongside-college-applications/ 78
/college-guide/19-freshman-pro-tips/ 87

From 1, the scores can be interpreted as

Score School level (US) Notes
100.00–90.00 5th grade Very easy to read. Easily understood by an average 11-year-old student.
90.0–80.0 6th grade Easy to read. Conversational English for consumers.
80.0–70.0 7th grade Fairly easy to read.
70.0–60.0 8th & 9th grade Plain English. Easily understood by 13- to 15-year-old students.
60.0–50.0 10th to 12th grade Fairly difficult to read.
50.0–30.0 College Difficult to read.
30.0–10.0 College graduate Very difficult to read. Best understood by university graduates.
10.0–0.0 Professional Extremely difficult to read. Best understood by university graduates.
dchege711 commented 2 months ago

Aiming for at least 60 (plain English) for all pages.

dchege711 commented 2 months ago

Use https://www.online-utility.org/english/readability_test_and_improve.jsp to see where to improve.

dchege711 commented 2 months ago

38 improves 12. High School Transcript, School Report and Letters of Recommendation | Kenyans Applying to US Universities from 63 to 66.