Meta Tag Analyser

How to use

1. Open the page, view its source, and copy the HTML — the head alone is enough.
2. Paste it here and read the four core tags first.
3. Fix anything in the warnings list, starting with noindex if it appears.
4. Check the heading outline: one h1, and no levels skipped.

Features

• Title, description, canonical and robots, with length against what actually displays.
• Every Open Graph and Twitter tag listed.
• Heading outline in document order.
• Warns about noindex, missing canonical, multiple h1 and an og:title that disagrees with the title.
• Parsed with the browser's own HTML parser, not with patterns.

Frequently asked questions

Why does it not just fetch the URL?

Because a tool that fetches whatever URL you give it, from a server, is a request-forgery hole — point it at an internal address and it becomes a way to reach things it should not. The URL parser here refuses the same job for the same reason. View source, copy, paste: it takes a moment longer and gives the same answer.

Are the length limits exact?

No, and nobody's are. Google truncates by pixel width, not character count, so a title of narrow letters survives longer than one of wide capitals — and the cut-off moves. The ranges here are the widely used approximations: treat them as a warning that something will probably be shortened, not as a rule.

Does a missing description hurt rankings?

Not directly — it is not a ranking factor. What it costs is the snippet: without one, the search engine writes its own from the page text, and that is usually less compelling than a sentence you chose. The click-through is where it shows up.

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