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Search snippet preview: will your title and description fit?
Our search snippet preview shows how your title and meta description lay out in a search result on desktop and on a 390 px phone screen, with a pixel-width estimate of where each is cut. Enter a URL to read them from the page, or paste the text to try a new version.
We read robots.txt before anything else and follow it, then read your page within eight seconds: up to three redirects, each checked again and each to a public HTTPS address, and at most 1.5 MB. HTTPS websites are supported; other addresses are refused. Pasted text is laid out in this page and is not sent to our server.
Paste a title and description instead
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We do not save your website, company name, page content or result. We keep daily totals and hashed network counters to enforce limits. A shared result stays in its link, not on our server.
What we check and why
Width, not character count
Result pages cut text by its width on screen. A title of narrow letters fits more characters than one of wide letters, so we measure with standard Arial character widths.
Desktop
A 600 px line: the title on one line at 20 px, and the description cut at 920 px of 14 px text.
Phone
A 342 px column on a 390 px screen: the title on up to two lines at 18 px, and the description cut at 680 px of 14 px text.
Estimates we publish
These widths are our model, not limits any search engine publishes, and engines may rewrite a title or description. Use the preview to see which words are at risk.
Questions
How long should a title be?
Long enough to name what the page offers, short enough to stay within about 600 px on desktop, which is roughly 50 to 60 characters of ordinary text. Put the words a buyer searches for at the start, so a cut takes the least important words.
Why did a search engine show a different title than mine?
Search engines can rewrite titles and descriptions, for example when a title is long, repeats words or does not match the page. A title that fits and describes the page is more likely to be shown as written.
Does the meta description affect ranking?
Google says it does not use the meta description for ranking. It can still shape whether a buyer clicks, because it is often the text shown under your title.
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