Meta tag checker
Read the live meta tags on any page and see what is missing.
Free and no signup. This one fetches the URL from our server; nothing about it is stored.
This one fetches the page from our server, so unlike the rest of these tools the URL does leave your browser. Nothing about it is stored.
About this tool
Meta tags are generated by a template, which means a mistake in one is usually a mistake in thousands. Reading them back off the live page is the only way to know what actually shipped, as opposed to what the template was supposed to produce.
- A noindex on a page you meant to rank is the most expensive single thing this can find, and it is almost always left over from a staging environment.
- A missing viewport tag means the page renders at desktop width on a phone, which fails mobile-friendliness outright.
- The structured data types found are listed. Nothing there when you expected Product or Article means your JSON-LD is malformed rather than absent.
- Fetched fresh each time, so this reflects what the page is serving right now rather than what a crawler cached.
Questions
- Why is my page not appearing in Google?
- Check the robots meta first. A noindex left from staging is the most common cause, and it is invisible unless you read the tag.
- Which meta tags actually matter?
- Title, description, canonical and viewport. Keywords has been ignored for over a decade, and most of the rest are cargo cult.
- Does this see JavaScript-rendered tags?
- No. It reads the HTML as served, which is also what a crawler sees first. If your tags are only set client-side, that is itself the finding.