Readability quotients

This link at Boudicca's Voice leads to a site that calculates readability quotients for just about any html document... including your blog, if you want   Here are two sites compared.  Well, one's a site and the other's a representative sample of an author's work. Now, which is Shakespeare's and which is mine?   (Jeopardy music plays in background—ok, imagine it is.)    ========> ========> ========> ========> ========> ========>   If you thought the "more difficult read" was Shakespeare, go to the back of the class.  The Shakespearean sonnet I selected (semi-random, just clicked on first one my mouse rode over) was this one:   SONNET 6  Then let not winter's ragged hand deface  In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd:  Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place  With beauty's treasure, ere it be self-kill'd.  That use is not forbidden usury,  Which happies those that pay the willing loan;  That's for thyself to breed another thee,  Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;  Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,  If ten of thine ten times refigured thee:  Then what could death do, if thou shouldst depart,  Leaving thee living in posterity?  Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair  To be death's conquest and make worms thine heir.   It's almost a rule: great writing is easy to read. Suckitudinous writing is most often the opposite.   NOTE: I am not asserting that because my blog features generally short sentences and easy vocabulary that it's great writing. Accessibility is just the entry level for writing that's worth reading.   UPDATE: If I don't have my sidebar fixed by now, locate it at the bottom of the page.  And if you want to show me where I've fragged my template, fee free.  :-)