Yoast Readability Analysis is celebrating its 5th anniversary. In just five years they have made readability analysis available in over 15 languages! π
Camille Cunningham has posted an interview between CEO Marieke van de Rakt and Irene Strikkers that explains why readability is important for your content SEO. This is an excellent plain-language summary of an important issue:
“Google reads text too. Googleβs algorithm tries to mimic a human. So, if Google reads texts the same way humans do, the demands of readability rise.β