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Posts: 11759 (08/23/07 10:30 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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This site is supposed to grade websites. I thought I'd try it with
FlyingOmelette.com. It did well over all (in the top 80%), but there was also this...
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Posts: 11759 (08/23/07 10:40 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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Actually, Josh Becker's site, qwipster.com and Mathworld get
Readability Level : Advanced Degree (PhD) Diefwolf's site gets 6th grade. Mine gets 7th grade. Gamefaqs gets 11th grade. It might be hard to attach much meaning to that rating. |
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Is the rating affected more by the actual written level of the material or the content? Because I'm wondering if the references to nudity and other
things of a (somewhat) sexual nature in the oddities and RAU Gallery might be contributing to that.
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Posts: 11759 (08/23/07 12:12 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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Well, obviously, it's completely automated by a computer, so it has to be something that can be subjected to a simple formula. I wouldn't be surprised
if all it does is look at something like sentence length. I also doubt it can sample the text of every page on a site, so maybe it randomly picks a few pages.
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Posts: 2987 (08/23/07 12:16 PM) Schmendrick's
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Deathamster's Nest got:
Readability Level : Advanced Degree (PhD)This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it.HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! I'm sorry, but I think that system's whacked. |
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Posts: 2383 (08/23/07 12:58 PM) I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost |
I don't think any education level would allow you to comprehend GameFAQs.
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Posts: 10694 (08/23/07 2:40 PM) Lunitari Mage |
Readability Level : 5th GradeI rock so much. |
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Posts: 2987 (08/23/07 3:20 PM) Schmendrick's
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On the other hand, maybe that's why so many fail to understand our sense of humor.
Hell, I should screencap that and frame it on the site. |
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Posts: 11759 (08/23/07 3:40 PM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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I thought I'd look at the articles from FlyingOmelette.com that were on Digg. Holy crap, some of the comments there were moronic. People were honestly
pissed that mediocre ending themes like Super Mario Land or Contra weren't on the list. One person saw that Earthbound made the list, but was annoyed it
wasn't #1. Many people missed that it was an ENDING music article, and were upset that One Winged Angel wasn't there (it is elsewhere). And there
were a lot of stupid complaints that there were too many older games on the list.
Thinking modern game music is superior to older game music is insanity. |
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Digg is known for having a lot of stupid people. Even moreso than GameFAQs from what I've heard.
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Posts: 2987 (08/23/07 5:02 PM) Schmendrick's
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Crawl and 1OOO wrote: UNIVERSE IMPLOSION!!
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I fixed some of the things they said were "wrong" and it bumped the score up to a 90. A couple of things I don't get, though:
I thought I fixed the 301 redirect issue, but either it didn't work or they can't detect it. I have no idea what a "Heading Summary" is, and nor does their explanation say anything that would indicate what it is. I can't find anything about that anywhere else and just putting a summary tag in the header doesn't seem to do jack squat. They can go screw themselves on the font tags issue. CSS is the root of all webarchiving evil. |
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Posts: 675 (08/24/07 3:22 AM) |
About readability... I know much of it is calculated by sentence length (characters and words), but also number of syllables and punctuation. I took a
education course in college when we used a random textbook paragraph and manually estimated the reading level. By the standards we were using, almost all my
samples were a grade or two too advanced for the targeted grade (I was reading them predicting the opposite, a grade or two less advanced).
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Posts: 11759 (08/24/07 8:37 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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Yeah, but they must use a different algorithm to calculate readability than, say, Microsoft Word.
I don't think I have EVER seen Microsoft Word say something was written at the "PhD Level". I don't even think it goes that high. |
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Posts: 1910 (08/24/07 8:58 AM) and my bird can sing too! |
alexa? alexa is breeding ground for spyware!
 "Birdies!"
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Yeah, I mentioned that once before when someone on these forums was pressuring people to download the Alexa toolbar. He got really pissed at me and said
"So what?" My response was that people deserve to know what they're getting into when they're told to download something on my forums.
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Posts: 2987 (08/24/07 12:21 PM) Schmendrick's
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Our site bombed out on some of those things, too, but I heard that Meta keywords don't really make any difference, and in fact, search engines might
actually ignore sites that have too many because of spammer abuse.
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Posts: 493 (09/16/07 10:20 PM) |
Data on this topic:
Alexa Traffic Ranking : 2,983Alexa is an online service that measures the approximate traffic for millions of sites on the Internet.The website http://flyingomelettespalace.yuku.com/topic/7971 has a ranking of 2,983. This means that it is the 2,983th most trafficed site on the web -- as measured by Alexa. (they're actually ranking yuku.com, but it still looks funny ^_^) Readability Level : High School + 2 Year CollegeThis score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it. |
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Posts: 2987 (09/19/07 12:19 PM) Schmendrick's
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That's not that bad. I guess Yuku must be getting more popular although this is the only Yuku board I've seen so far. I've yet to be casually
browsing sites and run into another that uses it.
It's probably nothing to worry about, but I hope that Yuku doesn't become as notorious as Myspace. My workplace blocked Myspace and if they did the same thing here I'd be in trouble... |
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Posts: 2506 (09/20/07 12:19 PM) I Look Like an Egg |
This score measures the approximate level of education necessary to read and understand the web page content. In most cases, the content should be made to be simple so that a majority of the target audience can understand it. Because there's nothing like pandering to mainstream idiots. No wonder the internet is so stupid.
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Posts: 319 (09/26/07 6:18 AM) |
Note that it says the majority of the TARGET AUDIENCE should be able to understand it. That's certainly true. My site's target audience is gamers 18
and older, so all that statement is saying is that when people visit my site that fall within that audience, they should ideally be able to understand
what's happening. The tool also says my site's reading level is 11th grade, so it sounds like I'm doing okay.
On a side note, the fact that people are surprised to find that Alexa is spyware makes me chuckle. When you think about it, Alexa's primary purpose is to be spyware. It's monitoring the sites you go to to determine which Internet portals are most popular. That's the reason people download it, and it also happens to be the reason it's classified as spyware. Remember that something like that isn't necessarily bad just because it's spyware. Yahoo and Google both have toolbars that are guilty of the same thing.
http://www.HonestGamers.com/
Be honest about your passion for games. Besides contributing user reviews, FAQs, cheats and other content, you can post in your free blog and on the community forums... or leave ratings for your favorite new, retro and import games from a list that numbers over 30,000! It's all free. It's all fun. It's all awesome! |
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