Why do Black and White images look awesome?

In the world of filters I had often wondered why do black and white images look so cool. You would find them on website front pages, birthday cards, magazines and what not. But the mystery surrounding the human obsession about the binary colors seem unexplained at best. What is it in those colors that attracts us? Why do pictures in black and white look more beautiful than their colored...

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Relation Between Page Views and Syllables, A Comparison

How do syllables lead to difference in page views? Does the number of syllables in a passage actually make the reader's job difficult or easy?  There aren't enough things that can be modified by a writer. But the short list would include definitely include syllables. Syllable in the simplest of form can be called as a unit of tone itself. When you pronounce 'SOBER' you actually combine...

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Relation Between Page Views and Sentence Length, A Comparison

Can you read really long sentences? Can you digest a sentence containing 50 words? We have seen in a previous article that higher complexity leads to lower number of visitors.  What happens when you use long sentences in a webpage? What is the optimum number of words a sentence must contain to ensure maximum user retention and interaction? Let us start with an example. Sample A Here...

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How to calculate the readability of a passage

The engine at read-able.com performs its function flawlessly when you add some text to be analyzed.  The following text is from an article on "4 crucial facts Google Analytics can tell about your readers". And the following are the results after assessing the piece of text. As can be seen from the table itself, several parameters are calculated on the text. An explanation with...

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A Dialogue with Allie from Grammarly

English Grammar is a vexing concept that comes into use at every turn in your digital life. It is here, you often encounter Grammar Nazis who would tear you limb to limb if you're found with a wrong grammar construct or a misspelled word.  You just cannot afford the time and energy to check every comment and every blabber by copying and pasting it into Microsoft word, just to check for...

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An Experiment on the Ease of Reading Text

Though it is true that the real information about the quality of text can be collected by reading it, there exist better empirical ways to do that for you. To judge the text in accordance with such empirical methods require some raw data.  For instance, the average number of words per unit sentence, the percentage of complex words in the text, and the average number of syllables per word. To...

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Auto Grammar Check, Grammarly, A Review

Word Processing softwares like Microsoft word are simply awesome in correcting your essays, reports and business letters. But, not all mistakes are picked up by such softwares. Reason, they're not made for sentence corrections. They're made to help you type, change font sizes, colors etc. But checking grammatical compositions? I don’t think so. During one such endeavor, I stumbled upon Grammarly....

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The Relation between Reading ease and Viewership

Ever wondered, how your writing style affects the number of visitors at your blog?  We often wonder what do people mean when they say, quality trumps quantity. Or when people say, "You need to focus on your content to leverage your SEO practices". Who knows what type of content qualifies as quality content? So we at codemakit, performed an experiment to find out "How does page views...

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Optimum Number of Images for a Webpage

Text has been the pioneer in information dissemination. But the ball has now left the court. In the digital age of high speed broadband internet, Text based websites are soooo 1980s. A post from yola.com depicted clearly, the need to strike a balance between visual and text content on a website. It is said that your readers often create impressions about your website in just 50 milliseconds,...

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Why do you need a multilingual website

Learn how you lose about 95% of your visitors and how to get them back. Demographics play an exceedingly pivotal role in determining the fate of your website. Language does pose a barrier if you want your blog to go truly global.  Codemakit ran an article on “Why do some countries hate your website?” answering the question how a simple change in spelling can cause your blog to stop receives...

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