SERP Snippet Preview

How to use

1. Paste the page URL, title tag and meta description.
2. Switch between desktop and mobile — a phone cuts sooner.
3. Watch the fit meters: they measure pixels, so the same character count can pass or fail.
4. Rewrite anything marked as cut, then copy the final text into your page.

Features

• Measures in pixels against Arial's own width table, because search engines truncate by width and not by character count.
• Cuts on a word boundary, the way a real result does, so you see the last word that will actually survive.
• Separate desktop and mobile limits, since a phone shows a narrower title and a longer description.
• Shows the breadcrumb form of the URL, with the scheme, the www and the query string dropped.
• Flags a description that leaves half the available space empty — free room you are not using.

Frequently asked questions

Is the limit 60 characters or not?

Not really. Sixty characters is a rule of thumb standing in for about 600 pixels, and the two only line up for average text. Sixty capital W's are more than twice the width of sixty lower-case l's, so a 55-character title can be cut while a 65-character one survives. That is why this tool measures the text rather than counting it.

Will Google show exactly what I typed?

Often not. Search engines rewrite titles and descriptions when they think something else matches the query better — a heading from the page, or a sentence containing the search terms. What you write is a strong suggestion rather than an instruction. It is still worth getting right: a title that fits and reads well is far more likely to be kept.

Does the meta description affect ranking?

Not directly — it has not been a ranking factor for many years. It affects the click-through rate, which is the point: your ranking earns the impression, and the description earns the click. A page with a good position and a missing description is leaving the most valuable line of copy on the site blank.

Why does the preview here look different from the real thing?

Because a live result carries things that come from outside the page — a date, a rating, sitelinks, the favicon — and the exact fonts and widths change between browsers, countries and layout experiments. The cut-off points are modelled closely; the styling is deliberately this site's own rather than an imitation of any one search engine.

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