Title Tag Checker: Real Pixel Width & SERP Preview

Google doesn't cut titles at a character count. It cuts them when they no longer fit the width of the results column — Google's own docs say titles are truncated as needed to fit the device width, and there's no limit on how long the element itself can be. In practice that's roughly 600 pixels on desktop.

Characters are a poor proxy: "WWW" is about twice as wide as "iii". That's why this checker measures pixels.

Descriptions get cut the same way, by width. Our meter uses roughly 920 pixels for desktop and 680 for mobile, the point where descriptions commonly truncate; Google publishes no exact limit.

The median homepage description in our sample was 150 characters, and 25.3% were longer than 160 — usually fine on desktop, often cut on phones.

Run three checks before you hit publish:

1. Front-load the point. Put what the reader gets in the first 100 characters, in case the rest is cut.
2. Match the query. Google may use your description when it describes the page better than on-page text; otherwise it writes its own snippet.
3. Make every page different. Duplicate descriptions are usually ignored.

Usually. After an update in 2021, Google said its systems use the HTML title element around 87% of the time. The rest get rewritten, typically because the title is too long, stuffed with keywords or doesn't match the page.

Write titles that name the page clearly and keep the important words inside the pixel limit. To generate the full tag set once you're happy, use the meta tag generator; to grade the whole page, run the on-page SEO checker.