Search Snippet Preview for Title and Description

How to use it

Type the Page title. Put the main search phrase near its start.
Type the Page address, starting with https://.
Type the Meta description. Add a Keyword (optional) if the title should contain a phrase.
Read the desktop and mobile results and the warnings under them. Change the text until the warnings you care about are gone.

How the cut-off points are measured

The browser measures each text on a canvas, in Arial: 20 pixels for a title and 14 pixels for a description. If a text is wider than its limit, the tool keeps as many characters as fit before an ellipsis (…), and it removes the space that would stand before the ellipsis.

Letters have different widths, so two titles of the same length can be cut at different points. A description is wrapped onto lines, and the last allowed line ends with an ellipsis when more text follows.

Title width (px) = width of the title text in 20 px Arial
Description width (px) = width of the description text in 14 px Arial
Desktop: the title up to about 600 px; the description up to 2 lines of about 920 px each

What Google documents, and what it does not

Google's guidance gives no fixed character count or pixel length for a title or a description. Titles are truncated in results as needed, typically to fit the device width. The guidance also says there is no limit on how long a meta description can be.

Google may rewrite a title or a description. It primarily uses the content on the page to choose the description it shows, and it may use the meta description when that gives a more accurate summary.

The figures in this tool are commonly observed approximations. They are not official figures from Google and they may change.
The mobile limit is this tool's own choice for a narrow screen. It is not taken from a Google document.

What this preview does not show

Rich results, images, dates, site names and the extra links that some results show.
Ranking, search volume, or the way Google picks the text it shows for a given search.

Worked example: a title without the keyword

The page title is Loan Calculator, the keyword is mortgage, and the meta description is still empty.

The title has 15 characters and is far shorter than the desktop limit, so it is not cut. The keyword is not in the title and the description is empty, so the tool shows two warnings.

Check	Result
Title characters	15
Keyword in the title	No
Warnings	2

Frequently asked questions

Does Google always show the title and description I write?

No. Google's guidance says it may rewrite a title or a description, and it primarily uses the content on the page to choose the text it shows. This preview shows only the text you type.

Is there an official character or pixel limit for titles?

No. Google's title guidance gives no fixed length. Titles are truncated as needed, typically to fit the device width, so the pixel figures on this page are approximations.

Why does the tool measure pixels and not characters?

Letters differ in width: a run of capital M letters takes more space than the same number of narrow letters. Measuring the text in Arial gives a closer estimate of the cut point than counting characters does.

Why does the keyword check depend on the language?

Capital letters are lower-cased with the rules of the page's language. In Turkish the capital I becomes a dotless ı and the capital İ becomes i, so a keyword is found correctly in Turkish text.

Is the text I type sent to a server?

No. The widths are measured in your browser and the preview is drawn on your device. The page does not send or store what you type.

Sources

Figures and text last checked on Tuesday, November 10, 2026.