As readers of this blog know, I am on somewhat of a rankings bender, with our recent conference on law school rankings, weekly tabulation of the Top 5 SSRN Tax Papers, and monthly ranking of the Top 25 SSRN Tax Faculty.  So it was only a matter of time before I submitted TaxProf Blog to the folks at Juicy Studio who have created various measures of a blog’s "readibility."  The results for TaxProf Blog:

Readability Results
Summary	Value
Total sentences	1,027
Total words	9,826
Average words per Sentence	9.57
Words with 1 Syllable	5,714
Words with 2 Syllables	2,170
Words with 3 Syllables	1,289
Words with 4 or more Syllables	653
Percentage of word with three or more syllables	19.76%
Average Syllables per Word	1.68
Gunning Fog Index	11.73
Flesch Reading Ease	54.78
Flesch-Kincaid Grade	8.00

The last three scores are the key:

Fog Index: "A rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content. The lower the number, the more understandable the content will be to your visitors."  Here is how TaxProf Blog’s 11.73 score ranks with other resources:

Fog Index Scores
Index	Resources
6	TV Guide, the Bible, Mark Twain
8	Reader’s Digest
8-10	Most Popular Novels
10	Time, Newsweek
11	Wall Street Journal
14	The Times, The Guardian

Reading Ease Index:  "An index number that rates the text on a 100-point scale. The higher the score, the easier it is to understand the document. Authors are encouraged to aim for a score of approximately 60 to 70."   Oops.

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level:  "A rough measure of how many years of schooling it would take someone to understand the content."  I wonder how many 8th grade readers we have (my 8th grade son is not one of them!).

(Thanks to Professor Bainbridge for the tip.)