Assessing the readability of online information about jones fracture

Table 1 Unpaired t-test for overall pages vs first page of websites

Readability metric	Overall mean ± SD (range)	First page mean ± SD (range)	Percentage mean difference	P value
Flesch reading ease	55.3970 ± 12.7618 (23.2-86.1)	55.3290 ± 15.9812 (9.9-87.4)	2.32	0.553
Flesch-kincaid	10.1450 ± 2.7082 (5.0-20.1)	10.3840 ± 3.2056 (4.9-18.9)	0.47	0.915
Gunning fog	12.7830 ± 2.8099 (8.2-23.5)	12.4210 ± 3.1772 (7.6-20.7)	3.86	0.287
SMOG	9.3530 ± 1.9114 (5.6-15.8)	9.3000 ± 2.3224 (5.1-16.3)	2.27	0.523
Coleman-liau index	12.2460 ± 1.4778 (7.5-16.1)	11.9970 ± 2.2096 (8-19)	4.64	0.41
Automated readability	10.2340 ± 3.0205 (4.6-22.0)	10.5680 ± 3.6182 (3.8-19.2)	1.05	0.824
Average grade level	10.95230 ± 2.27862 (6.18-18.88)	10.93420 ± 2.73413 (6.22-18.48)	0.09	0.888