Title and Meta Description Length Checker

How to use

1. Type or paste the page title and the meta description.
2. Read the character count and the pixel width of each, measured in Arial on a browser canvas.
3. Compare each width with its limit, 561 px for titles and 985 px for descriptions by default, and change a limit if you use another figure.
4. Shorten whatever the cut-off preview shows as trimmed, then copy the final wording.

What it checks and how it works

Google publishes no character or pixel limit for titles or snippets. Its documentation says a title may be truncated as needed, typically to fit the device width, and that snippets are chosen and cut automatically, so every limit is an estimate.

This tool uses the estimates that Screaming Frog publishes for its SEO Spider: titles over 561 pixels and descriptions over 985 pixels, and its default character bands of 30 to 60 for titles and 70 to 155 for descriptions. Width is measured with the canvas measureText method in Arial, at 20 px for titles and 14 px for descriptions. Those two font sizes are Zaher's assumption for the desktop results page, because Google does not document them. Characters are counted as Unicode code points.

Limits: the font on a real results page may differ from the one measured here, especially for Arabic, so a width is a guide and not a promise. Google may also rewrite the title or choose another snippet, and the cut-off text shown is an illustration. Where a browser canvas is not available the tool counts characters only.