How to use the SEO title and meta length checker
When a title tag or meta description runs long, search engines cut it off and replace the tail with an ellipsis. If the keyword that would have earned the click sits in the part that got trimmed, the listing underperforms. Paste both fields here to see their lengths and whether they sit inside a sensible budget.
One caveat matters more than the numbers themselves: Google truncates by pixel width, not by character count. Wide capitals, em dashes and accented characters eat the budget faster than narrow lowercase letters, so any character figure is an approximation. The common working numbers of about 60 characters for a title and about 155 for a description are defaults here, not rules, and both boxes are editable because search engines change how snippets display without notice.
The verdict tells you how many characters to cut when you are over, or how much room is left when the field looks thin. Leading and trailing spaces are ignored, and characters are counted by grapheme so an emoji counts as one.
Put the important words first. Anything that survives truncation should still make sense on its own. Nothing you paste is uploaded.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Google cuts snippets by pixel width, so character counts are only a rough proxy. Both budgets are editable so you can match whatever your own testing shows.
Meta descriptions are not a ranking factor; they affect click-through. Writing the key point early, inside a length that will not be truncated, works better than writing more.