A title and meta description checker that shows your page in Google, cut by pixels on desktop and on a phone, with its social cards.
5.0(1 rating)Paste a page's link to read its title, description and share tags, or type your own. You see it in Google on desktop and on a phone, and on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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What you type stays in your browser. A page is read as a crawler reads it, without running its JavaScript, and kept on this site for 30 minutes.
This free title and meta description checker shows your page in Google the way Google shows it.
It cuts your title and description by pixels, not characters, on desktop and on a phone. And it shows the X, LinkedIn and Facebook cards from the same tags.
Here's what a title tag and a meta description are, how long each should be, and how to write ones that get the click.
What is a title tag and a meta description?
A title tag is the name of a page, and the meta description is its short summary. Both live in the page's code, and Google often shows them as the result's blue link and the text under it.
They don't show on the page itself. They're what people read before they decide to click.
How to check your title and meta description
No page yet? Type a title and a description in the boxes, and the previews still work.
How long should a title tag be?
Keep your title under 570 pixels, about 55 to 60 characters. That's how wide Google's desktop result was on September 26, 2026, at 22 pixels in Google Sans.
A longer title gets cut with " ..." at the end. Google cuts by width, so a title of wide letters is cut sooner than one of narrow letters.
How long should a meta description be?
Keep your description to about 2 lines on desktop, or 1,304 pixels. That's roughly 150 to 160 characters at 14 pixels in Roboto.
On a phone, Google shows 3 lines of 358 pixels. The checker draws both, so you see where each one ends.
Why Google shows a different title or description
Google writes its own when it thinks yours doesn't match the page or the search. It uses the page's headings, its text or other titles instead.
The best defense is a title that matches the page's main heading, and a description that answers the search in plain words.
Social previews: Open Graph and X cards
When someone shares your page, X, LinkedIn and Facebook build a card from its Open Graph tags: og:title, og:description and og:image.
Use a share image of at least 1,200 by 630 pixels, and add twitter:card so X shows the large card. The checker flags each missing tag.
What the checker flags
Beyond length, the checker reads the page the way a crawler does. Here's what it looks for:
- A missing or doubled title and description, and a description that only repeats the title.
- A noindex rule, in the page or in its headers, which keeps it out of Google entirely.
- A missing or different canonical link, which tells Google which address is the real one.
- No H1, or more than 1, the main heading Google compares with your title.
- Missing share tags, a missing share image, or a small one.
Fix the red ones first: they keep a page out of search or out of the click.
7 title patterns that earn the click
A title only works if people choose it over the 9 others on the page. Here are patterns that do:
- The keyword first: "Title tag checker: see your page in Google".
- A number: "7 title patterns that earn the click".
- The result: "Get your title under 570 pixels in 1 minute".
- The year, when freshness matters: "Engagement rate benchmarks for 2026".
- Free or no login, when it's true.
- A question people ask: "How long should a title tag be?".
- Your brand at the end, after a separator, when there's room.
Write 3, read them as a searcher would, and keep the one you'd click.
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Title and Meta Description Checker FAQs
Questions about title tags and meta descriptions? Here's what to know.
A title and meta description checker is a tool that shows how a page's title and description look in Google. This one cuts them by pixels on desktop and on a phone, shows the social cards, and flags what's missing.
A title tag should stay under 570 pixels, about 55 to 60 characters, to show in full in Google on desktop. That's the width Google's desktop result had when I measured it on September 26, 2026.
A meta description should be about 2 lines on desktop, roughly 150 to 160 characters. On a phone, Google shows 3 shorter lines, so the most important words go first.
The checker counts pixels because Google cuts titles and descriptions by width, not by the number of characters. A title of wide letters like W and M gets cut sooner than one of narrow letters.
Google shows a different title when it thinks yours doesn't match the page or the search. It then builds one from the page's headings or text, so a title that matches your main heading is the best defense.
No, the meta description doesn't directly affect rankings in Google. It affects whether people click, which is why it's worth writing well.
Open Graph tags are tags in a page's code that tell X, LinkedIn and Facebook what title, description and image to show when the page is shared. The checker reads them and draws each network's card.
A social share image should be at least 1,200 by 630 pixels, a wide 1.91 to 1 shape. The checker warns you when a page's share image is smaller.
Yes, type a title, a description and an image link into the boxes, and the checker draws every preview without reading a page.
Yes, the title and meta description checker is free, with no sign-up. To keep it free for everyone, each person can check 30 pages every 10 minutes.
What you type is saved only in your browser, so it's there when you come back. The pages you check are kept on my site for 30 minutes, so a second look is instant.
The title and meta description checker is for creators, marketers and site owners who want their pages to read well in Google and when shared.
For SEO, the AI crawler checker, the schema markup generator and the llms.txt generator cover the rest of a page's setup. See all my free tools.
Navid Moazzez
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Navid Moazzez helps creators and founders master AI and build their own AI Operating System (AI OS) to automate their business and life.
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