Free Meta Title & Description Checker

A title tag is the clickable headline in a Google result. A meta description is the gray text underneath. This page estimates whether both will fit, and whether a focus keyword and a brand show up the way you intended. The check runs in the browser. Nothing you type is sent to Posting Dude.

Google does not publish a character maximum for either field. It fits the snippet to the width of the result, and it sometimes replaces what you wrote with another sentence from the page. Character count tells you whether the line is specific. Pixel width tells you whether it will be cut, because wide letters reach the edge sooner than narrow ones.

Titles are measured as 20px Arial against a desktop budget of about 580 pixels. A practical writing range is about 50 to 60 characters. Under about 30 characters, the title usually names the product and stops. When the meter passes 580 pixels, the ending is the part most likely to disappear, so put the distinctive words first.

Write the title as a sentence a stranger can finish. If the brand belongs in the title, use it once. The preview cuts the string at the budget and shows an ellipsis where a desktop result is likely to stop.

Descriptions are measured as 14px Arial against a desktop budget of about 920 pixels. That often lands near 150 to 160 characters. Under about 70 characters, the snippet looks thin beside results that explain the page. Past 920 pixels, the last clause is what gets dropped.

Put the outcome in the first sentence and one concrete detail in the second: who it is for, what changes, or what the page lets someone do. Repeating the title in the description spends the snippet twice. The desktop card wraps the truncated string so you can see whether the surviving text still makes sense.

Phone results sit in a narrower column and often show fewer description lines. The mobile title budget here is about 600 pixels at 16px Arial, roughly two lines. The mobile description budget is about 680 pixels at 14px Arial. If the point only appears after the ellipsis, move it forward.

These budgets are estimates for the preview, not a live feed from Google. A small screen can show less text even when the desktop meter says the line fits, so read the mobile card on its own before you publish.

The focus keyword box checks whether that phrase appears in the title and in the description. It does not score density or difficulty. If the phrase is missing from the title, a searcher has less reason to recognize the result. Use it once, in ordinary language, near the front when the title still reads like a sentence.

The URL box only changes the breadcrumb. The address is not fetched, so an unpublished URL can still be checked. An invalid URL is shown as typed. The brand warning appears when the brand occurs more than once in the title, which happens when a template appends the site name to a title that already starts with it. Leave the brand empty and the checker uses the first label of the hostname, warning only when that label is repeated. The domain already names the site. A second copy spends pixels the topic could use.

A line that fits can still be rewritten, and a line that includes the keyword can still lose the click. The checker answers a smaller question: if Google uses what you wrote, will the desktop and mobile snippets keep it, and does the keyword appear?

Paste the title, the description, and the URL you expect to publish. Fix cutoff first, then a missing keyword, then a repeated brand. When both meters sit inside the budget and the mobile card still reads as a complete thought, the snippet is ready to ship.