Google result preview
Check whether your title and description survive Google’s pixel limit.
Free, no signup, and it runs entirely in your browser.
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Your page title
The snippet Google shows under your title. Write it as the ad copy for the result.
Title0/580px · 0 chars
Fits.
Description0/990px · 0 chars
Fits.
About this tool
Google truncates titles by pixel width, not by character count, which is why the usual "keep it under 60 characters" advice fails in both directions. A title full of capitals and Ms gets cut at 48 characters; one full of lowercase Ls and Is survives past 70. This measures the actual rendered width in the same font Google uses, so you can see where the cut lands.
- Desktop results allow roughly 580 pixels of title. Mobile allows a little less and wraps to two lines rather than truncating, so a title that fails on desktop may still read fine on a phone.
- Google rewrites titles it considers unhelpful — somewhere around half the time, by most measures. Matching the page’s H1 and the query intent makes a rewrite less likely than stuffing keywords does.
- Meta descriptions are not a ranking factor, but they are the ad copy for your result. Google ignores yours and generates its own whenever it thinks a passage from the page answers the query better.
- Measured in your browser with a canvas, using the same font family Google renders results in. Nothing is uploaded.
Questions
- How long should a title tag be?
- Aim for under 580 pixels rather than a character count — that is roughly 55 to 60 characters in practice, but it depends entirely on which letters you use. This tool measures the real width.
- Why did Google change my title?
- It substitutes its own when the title looks stuffed with keywords, is duplicated across pages, or does not match what the page is about. Writing the title as a description of the page rather than a list of terms is the reliable fix.
- Does the meta description affect ranking?
- No, not directly. It affects click-through rate, which affects how much traffic a given ranking earns you — so it is worth writing well even though it is not a ranking signal.