Title Tag and Meta Description Checker

What the title tag checker shows

Enter a URL and the checker reads the page's HTML the way a crawler does, then shows:

• The title tag and meta description with their length in characters and their width in pixels, which is what Google actually cuts by.
• A search preview for desktop and mobile, with the title and description cut where Google would cut them.
• Problems that cost clicks: a missing, duplicate, generic, short or long title, a missing or repeated meta description, a description that only copies the title, and a noindex that keeps the page out of results.
• The H1 and Open Graph tags, which Google draws on when it rewrites a title and which social shares use.
• AI suggestions: three titles and three descriptions written from the page itself, each checked to fit before it is shown.

No URL yet? Type a title and description into the editor to use it as a SERP preview tool for a page you have not published.

How long should a title tag and meta description be?

Google sets a width, not a character count. A title of 55 narrow letters fits while 45 wide capitals do not, which is why character counters disagree with what you see in search. The checker measures every character with Arial's widths at Google's sizes, 20 px for titles and 14 px for descriptions:

A cut title is not a penalty, but searchers only see the part before the dots. Put the words that decide the click first and the brand last.

How to write a title that earns the click

• Lead with the search phrase. The words people type should be near the start, where they are seen first and never cut.
• Be specific. "Redirect checker: trace every hop" beats "Free SEO tools". Say what the page gives the reader.
• One title per page, unique across the site. Duplicate titles make pages hard to tell apart, and Google often rewrites titles that repeat across a site.
• Brand at the end, after a pipe or a colon, unless the brand is what people search for.
• Match the H1. When the title and the main heading agree, Google is less likely to replace your title.

How to write a meta description Google uses

Write it as the answer to the search: what the reader gets from this page, in one or two plain sentences of about 120 to 150 characters, with the main phrase once and a reason to click at the end. Give every page its own. Google shows the meta description when it fits the query and otherwise picks a passage from the page, so a page with clear, well written text gets a good snippet either way.

Checking a whole site rather than one page? The SEO analyzer scores titles, descriptions, headings and images together.

The best snippet needs an indexed page

A title only shows in results once Google has indexed the page. If a page with a good snippet still gets no impressions, check that it is on Google with the Google index checker, and find out what holds it back with the why is my page not indexed checker. After you change titles across a site, Google also has to crawl the pages again before the new snippets appear.

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