This free online tool provides a computer analysis of any text or web page.
The site was created by Bernhard Huber, a civil engineering student in Toulouse, France, primarily as an aid for translators and webmasters but also for general users like you and me.
People are using it to analyze blogs and political speeches, among other things.
For example, there's a feature that generates a list of the most frequently used words in a text, and how many times they appeared.
Said Huber, "Text analysis offers endless possibilities. For instance, one person asked me how he could prove with textalyser that a text had been written by a particular person." [via Pamela LiCalzi O'Connell's Online Diary in today's New York Times]
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1 - Nyx
Blogcritics analyzed.
Total word count : 5802
Number of different words : 2267
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 39.1%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 5.7
Total number of characters : 51045
Number of characters without spaces : 37519
Average Syllables per Word : 1.77
Sentence count : 1548
Average sentence length (words) : 7.48
Max sentence length (words) : 75
( james lowe of the electric prunes toby morrell of emery travis morrison mickey bozinovich lycia christopher deliso clayton teague jason priestley sonny landreth emmylou harris mark anderson henry kisor stephen unwin me shell ndegeocello greg ginn mike watt paul barker chris muir andrew sullivan jeremy pelt sascha konietzko brock clarke jay nussbaum mau mau sex sex producers richard brookhiser peter tosh mary carey andrew loog oldham tucker carlson rick hiebert always sunday allan slutsky dr)
Min sentence length (words) : 1
( blogcritics)
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 49.2
Frequency and top words :
Word Occurrences Frequency Rank
the 279 4.8% 1
far 153 2.6% 2
comments 151 2.6% 2
under 123 2.1% 3
filed 113 1.9% 4
and 106 1.8% 5
books 103 1.8% 5
video 100 1.7% 6
music 92 1.6% 7
cetera 59 1% 8
Word Length :
Word Length (characters) Word count Frequency
2 2196 25.2%
5 1256 14.4%
3 1216 14%
4 1091 12.5%
6 629 7.2%
1 511 5.9%
8 482 5.5%
7 444 5.1%
9 268 3.1%
10 164 1.9%
11 125 1.4%
12 100 1.1%
13 66 0.8%
14 63 0.7%
15 24 0.3%
16 23 0.3%
17 16 0.2%
18 10 0.1%
21 8 0.1%
19 8 0.1%
20 3 0%
28 2 0%
29 2 0%
36 1 0%
25 1 0%
38 1 0%
24 1 0%
26 1 0%
23 1 0%
30 1 0%
44 1 0%
Syllable count :
Syllable count Word count Frequency
1 3740 51.6%
2 2219 30.6%
3 802 11.1%
4 303 4.2%
5 129 1.8%
6 31 0.4%
7 18 0.2%
9 6 0.1%
8 2 0%
13 1 0%
10 1 0%
14 1 0%
2 - jadester
I did my own blog out of interest:
Total word count : 6248
Number of different words : 1777
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 28.4%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 8.7
Total number of characters : 38808
Number of characters without spaces : 29099
Average Syllables per Word : 1.58
Sentence count : 376
Average sentence length (words) : 17.99
Max sentence length (words) : 101
(the cast you may well have heard of some of the others too most of these guys have appeared in at least one film don stark plays bob pinciotti pronounced pin see oddie tanya roberts midge pinciottimila kunis jackie aka the annoying one wilmer valderrama fez aka the foreign kid ashton kutcher michael kelso aka the dumbass danny masterson steven hyde aka the stoner topher grace eric forman aka foreplay laura prepon donna pinciotti aka the lumberjack debra joe rupp kitty formankurtwood smith red formanin some ways it s a typical comedy series about a group of friends and their families)
Min sentence length (words) : 1
( aliens)
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 54.5
hmm, seems readable. Now all i need is to write stuff lots of people actually want to read =+)