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Google cuts titles and descriptions by width in pixels, not by a character count: a title full of wide capitals runs out of room long before one in lowercase. Type your title, meta description and URL to see them as a Google result on desktop and mobile, measured with the same font Google renders them in.

Your page

Pass: Measuring...

65 characters

Desktop-- / 600 px

Pass: Measuring...

175 characters

Desktop-- / 920 px
Mobile-- / 680 px

Shown as a breadcrumb trail built from the path.

Google takes it from your WebSite structured data and falls back to the domain.

Preview

An approximation of a Google result, always drawn in Google's light theme. On small screens the desktop frame is scaled down to fit.

Desktop
Examplehttps://example.com › blog › title-tags-meta-descriptions

How to Write Title Tags and Meta Descriptions That Earn the Click

Learn how Google chooses the title and snippet it shows, how many pixels you really get on desktop and mobile, and a simple formula for meta descriptions people want to click.

Mobile
Examplehttps://example.com › blog › title-tags-meta-descriptions

How to Write Title Tags and Meta Descriptions That Earn the Click

Learn how Google chooses the title and snippet it shows, how many pixels you really get on desktop and mobile, and a simple formula for meta descriptions people want to click.

How it works, and its limits

  • Text is measured in your browser with the canvas API, in Arial: 20px for titles and 14px for descriptions. Titles are cut at about 600px on desktop; descriptions at about 920px on desktop and 680px on mobile, at a word boundary with “ ...” added.
  • These limits are approximations. Google does not publish them, its layout changes without notice, and many results show a date or rich result features that take space from the description.
  • Google may rewrite your title, and often builds the snippet from your page text, especially when the meta description does not match the search. A preview shows what you asked for, not a guarantee of what appears.
  • The site name comes from your WebSite structured data when Google trusts it, and the breadcrumb trail from your URL path or BreadcrumbList markup.

For how to write titles and descriptions that earn the click, read the titles and meta descriptions guide.