Dev.to Rater — Analyze blog posts to uncover trends and metrics

We're excited to introduce Dev.to Rater - a tool we built to help content creators on Dev.to.

A lot of tech writers often found it hard to know whether their posts were engaging enough. It was challenging to measure things like readability and structure. That’s when we realized there wasn’t a standard for writing tech blogs. Everyone has their own style, and there’s no clear metric to measure quality.

In a world where AI-generated blogs are becoming more common, we want to focus on maintaining the authenticity of human-written content.

And that's how Dev.to Rater was born ✨

Meet Dev.to Rater

Dev.to Rater is a tool that analyzes your post content, such as headings, paragraphs, images, and links, to help enhance the readability and engagement of your content. This tool helps you to write posts more impactful and engaging. It provides a score based on various factors like heading length, sentence complexity, link and emoji usage, and more. The goal is to help creators write more impactful, engaging posts and bring consistency to how we evaluate content.

How it works?

1. 🔗 You submit your blog post URL

2. ✅ You get a score

3. 📊 You can see exceeded sentences, common words, reading time, etc.

How do we calculate score?

All logic for calculating can be found at our documentation.

Future plans? Medium support? 🔮

Looking ahead, we’re also planning to support Medium and build a Chrome extension that will instantly show you the score of your blog post as you write, helping you refine your content on the fly!

We’d love to hear your thoughts on this. What features would you like to see, or what’s important to you when writing tech blogs?

P.S. We are open-source! Please star the repository for the support ⭐ Thank you!

That sounds great! Does it score based on the type of writing (introductions, daily posts, reflections), or is the scoring uniform across all types?