See where Google cuts your title off
Type a title and a description and watch the result build itself. It measures pixel width, which is what Google measures, and it never sends anything anywhere.
Title51/60 characters · 449/580px
This fits.
Description122/155 characters · 782/920px
This fits.
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AI SEO tool that publishes your blog, then fixes it
Picks the keywords, writes the articles, publishes them to your site and rewrites whatever stalls. Free audit, no account.
Google measures width, not characters, which is why a title of capitals runs out sooner than one of lowercase. The character counts are a guide; the preview is the answer. Google also rewrites titles it does not like, and nothing on either side of this page changes that.
Questions
- How long should a title be?
- Long enough to say the thing and short enough to survive. Google gives a desktop result about 580 pixels, which is roughly 60 characters of lowercase and noticeably fewer in capitals. The preview shows where your own title stops.
- Does the meta description affect rankings?
- Not directly. It affects whether somebody clicks the result you already earned, which is the part most sites leave on the table while working on the ranking.
- Why does Google sometimes show a different title?
- Because it rewrites titles it thinks describe the page badly, often using an on-page heading instead. Writing a title that matches what the page actually says is the only reliable way to keep yours.
This checks one page. The audit checks all of them.
The free scan reads your real site and runs 42 checks, including the title and description rules behind this tool.