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Search snippet preview

Google shortens titles and descriptions by pixel width, not character count. Type yours, or load them from a live page, to see roughly where the cut falls before you publish.

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  • Runs in your browser
  • Checks live pages

Search snippet preview

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What you type stays in your browser. For a live check, our server fetches only the public pages and files needed for the address you enter.

Three steps

How it works

  1. Type a title, description, and page address, or load them from a live page.

  2. Watch the preview and width bars. The tool marks text that's likely to be cut off.

  3. Tighten the wording, then copy the title and description into your page.

GuideReviewed

How to write titles and descriptions that survive the cut

Contents

Why pixels, not characters

Google shortens titles and snippets to fit the screen and doesn't publish a character limit. Letters have different widths, so 60 narrow characters can fit where 50 wide ones don't.

This preview measures your text in the browser with a font close to Google's and uses commonly observed desktop cut-offs: about 600 pixels for a title and about 920 pixels for a description. Treat them as estimates; Google's layout varies by device and changes over time.

Write a title that earns the click

The title is usually the biggest, bluest thing in the result. Make it specific to the page.

  • Put the words people search for first.
  • Give every page its own title; repeated boilerplate gets rewritten.
  • Add your brand at the end if there's room.
  • Skip keyword lists. Google may replace a stuffed title with a heading from the page.

Treat the description as a pitch

Google often writes its own snippet from the page when another passage matches the search better. A strong meta description still raises the odds yours is used: summarize the page in plain language, include the facts a searcher wants, and keep every page's description unique.

Questions, answered

What people ask before they use the Search snippet preview.

Google doesn't set a character limit; it shortens titles to fit the screen. On desktop, titles wider than about 600 pixels, often 50 to 60 characters, are usually cut off. Keep the important words first so a shortened title still makes sense.

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