Answer-First Paragraph Checker

Test whether a page's opening paragraph answers the question before it explains.

Opening paragraph

Question the page should answer (optional)

Buries the answer

45 words, 3 sentences, 15 words in the first sentence.

Result	Check	Detail
Pass	Lead sentence length	15 words. Keep the first sentence to 30 or fewer.
Pass	Paragraph length	45 words. Answer paragraphs read best under 60.
Fail	No preamble	Opens with "in this article". Cut the warm-up and start with the answer.
Fail	Hedging words	4 hedging words (might, could, may, perhaps, generally and similar). Allowed: 1.
Fail	Direct statement	First sentence has no plain statement verb or number. State the answer as a fact.
Pass	Doesn't open with a question	First sentence is a statement.
Bonus	Definition pattern	Bonus: an "X is a ..." opening is the easiest form to quote.

How it works

1
Paste the opening paragraph, or enter a URL and the tool takes the first paragraph after the H1.
2
Optionally enter the question the page should answer.
3
The checker scores the paragraph on length, directness, hedging, and whether it restates the question's key terms.

What does an answer-first paragraph look like?

One or two sentences that state the answer, then the detail. Under 60 words. No preamble like 'In this article we will'.

Why are hedging words penalised?

'Might', 'could', 'arguably' and similar words make a sentence harder to quote as a fact, because engines lift plain statements and skip hedged ones.

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