Meta title & description length checker

What it does

Google cuts off titles and descriptions that are too wide to fit in a search result. This checker measures your text the way Google does, by pixel width in the font and size the results page uses, and shows you where the cut will fall. Character counts are shown too, because that is what most editors and CMS fields report.

How to use it

1. Paste the title and description from the page, or from your CMS fields.
2. Watch the two status badges. "Fits" means the full text will show on desktop. "Close to the limit" means a longer word or a device with a narrower layout could cut it.
3. Read the preview. The grey ellipsis marks where Google would truncate.
4. Edit until both fit, keeping the words people search for near the start.

How to read the result

A title of 72 characters sounds only slightly long, but set in Google's 20px Arial it measures around 690px and loses its last two words. On a service page we audited, the cut landed on "in Dubai", which was the only part of the title that matched the local query. Moving the location to the front fixed the click-through rate without touching anything else on the page.

Descriptions have more room, about 155 characters or 920px. A description that is too short is not penalised, but it wastes the space; aim to state what the page offers and who it is for, then stop.

Capital letters and wide characters such as W and M eat width faster than narrow ones such as i and l, which is why two titles with the same character count can show differently. That is the reason this tool measures pixels.