Title tag and meta description length checker
A title tag length checker: paste the address of any page and it measures the title against about 65 characters, the width Check Engine uses before a search result cuts it off, and the meta description against 70 to 165. It then reads the canonical, robots tags, headings and sharing tags, and says what to fix.
Free, no sign-up required. Nothing to install; the page is read once and nothing about it is stored.
- Paste the address of a live page, yours or a rival's.
- Press Check this page.
- Start with the first item: the worst comes first, with the change to make.
You will see:
- The title and meta description, measured the way Check Engine measures them, with a verdict on each
- Whether the page can be indexed, from its robots tag and its headers
- The canonical, the main heading, and what a shared link will show
One page at a time. Check Engine measures the title and description of every page on your site and finds the pages that share a title or point a canonical at an address that cannot be indexed.
Checking tags on many pages? The free Check Engine SEO add-on for Chrome does it from the tab you are on, with nothing uploaded.
That was one page, read once. Check Engine runs 99 checks across your whole site, ranked by what to fix first, each with where it is and the change to make. The free download shows your score and the top problem in full.
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How long should a title be?
Search results cut a title off at about 580 pixels, which is roughly 65 Latin characters. Check Engine measures width rather than counting characters, because Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters render about twice as wide: a 19-character Japanese title is 31 wide and perfectly normal. Below 25 wide, a result has little to show. Put the words that say what the page is first; a brand name at the end is the first thing to be cut.
How long should a meta description be?
Between 70 and 165 wide is the range Check Engine uses. Google writes its own snippet when the description does not match what someone searched for, so the description is a suggestion. A good one says what the page offers and why to click, in the first sentence.
What the other checks mean
- Indexable. A
noindexin a robots meta tag, or in theX-Robots-Tagheader, keeps the page out of search. The checker reads both. - Canonical. It tells search engines which address to show for this page. Pointing at another address is fine when it is deliberate, such as a filtered view pointing at the main list.
- H1, language and viewport. One main heading, a
langon the<html>tag, and a viewport tag so phones get a page made for them. - Open Graph.
og:title,og:descriptionandog:imagedecide what a link shows when it is shared in a chat or on social media.
What one page cannot tell you
Whether two pages share the same title, whether the canonical you point at is itself indexable, and whether the page's text matches what its tags promise. Check Engine checks those across every page of a site, with the rest of its 99 checks, and ranks what to fix first.
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- Write meta descriptions for every page
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- Robots.txt tester
Common questions
How long should a title tag be?
Up to about 580 pixels, roughly 65 Latin characters, before search results cut it off. Width matters more than count: East Asian characters are about twice as wide.
How long should a meta description be?
Between 70 and 165 wide is the range Check Engine uses. Google may still write its own snippet when the description does not match the search.
How do I check if a page is set to noindex?
Paste it into the checker above. It reads the robots meta tag on the page and the X-Robots-Tag header the server sends, and reports a noindex in either.