Type a title, a meta description and the page URL, and the tool draws the result the way Google lays it out: favicon, site name and breadcrumb trail on top, the blue title, an optional date and star rating, and the description with the words of your search query in bold. Two bars show how wide the title and the description are in pixels against the space Google gives them, and a list says what to fix. Switch between desktop and mobile to see both. Copy the finished <title> and <meta name="description"> tags with one click.
Pixels, not characters
Google does not cut titles after a fixed number of characters. It cuts them when they run out of room, so the width of each letter matters: an "i" or "l" in Arial is 222 thousandths of the font size wide, an "m" 833 and a "W" 944. A title of capital Ws runs out of room after about 30 characters; one of narrow letters can pass 70. That is why "keep titles under 60 characters" is only a rule of thumb.
The tool measures with your browser's own Arial, the font Google uses for results, and falls back to Arial's published metrics where it cannot measure. The budgets it uses are the commonly measured approximations, checked on 14 October 2026:
- Desktop title: about 600 px of 20 px text, roughly 50 to 60 characters of mixed text.
- Desktop description: about 920 px of 14 px text, roughly 145 to 160 characters.
- Mobile: titles wrap over up to two lines and descriptions are shorter, around 120 characters; the tool uses 680 px budgets for both.
When text is too long, it is cut at the last whole word that fits with " ..." after it, which is what Google does in most results. A date shown before the description takes part of the description's space; the tool subtracts it.
What it cannot tell you
Google does not always show your text. It rewrites titles it considers inaccurate, too long, stuffed with keywords or identical across pages, and it often builds the snippet from the page text that best matches the query instead of your meta description. The preview shows what happens if Google uses your text, which is the part you control. Rich results such as stars appear only with valid structured data and only when Google chooses to show them; the rating here is a mock to see how much room it takes.
Writing titles and descriptions that survive
Put the words people search for at the start of the title and keep the brand at the end, where a cut costs least. Make the description a reason to click: what the reader gets, in concrete terms, in the first 120 characters, because that is all phone users see. Every page needs its own title and description; duplicates are the most common reason Google writes its own. The article titles and meta descriptions that don't get cut works through examples with measured widths. To write the full set of head tags, including Open Graph for social shares, use the Open Graph and meta tag generator; to count characters for social posts, the text toolkit.
