SERP Preview — Google Title and Meta Pixel Check
A Google search result preview that measures title and description pixel width
Runs in your browser · nothing is uploaded
Example text is filled in. Replace it with your own title and description.
Getting ready to measure…
Getting ready to measure…
Display only. Shown as the site and path line above the result.
Device
Whole number from 100 to 3000. The default comes from the guides below and can be changed.
Search result preview
Character Counter — Count Words, Letters, Lines and Bytes Online for Free
Paste your text to count characters with and without spaces, words, lines and bytes instantly. Handy for essays, posts and meta tags.
An approximation of how a Google result currently looks. Real fonts and spacing differ between devices and browsers.
HTML tags (paste into the head)
<title>Character Counter — Count Words, Letters, Lines and Bytes Online for Free</title> <meta name="description" content="Paste your text to count characters with and without spaces, words, lines and bytes instantly. Handy for essays, posts and meta tags.">
Widths are measured with the browser canvas using a 20px (title) and 14px (description) Arial-style font. Characters Arial lacks, such as Korean, are measured with whatever fallback font your device has, so results vary slightly by device.
Width limits: title about 600px (texturb Google title pixel cut-off guide), description about 920px on desktop (~160 characters) and 680px on mobile (~130 characters) (interad meta description guide), retrieved 2026-10-04. These are secondary guides, not Google figures. The guides give no mobile title width, so 600px is reused. Google may also rewrite titles and snippets for a query.
What it is
This SERP preview shows how a page title and meta description are likely to appear in Google search results. Google trims long titles and snippets by their width on screen, not by a character count, and replaces the rest with an ellipsis. Narrow letters like i and l take far less room than M or W, and Korean or Chinese characters take more still, so counting characters alone is unreliable. The tool measures your text with the browser’s canvas and tells you whether it fits and what would actually be shown.
How to use
- Enter a title, a meta description and the page URL. Example text is filled in to start with, so replace it with your own.
- Pick Desktop or Mobile. Mobile uses a narrower description limit and a narrower preview card.
- Under each field, read the measured width against the limit, the character count and whether the text gets cut. When it does, the visible version with the ellipsis is shown.
- Change the pixel limits if you want a stricter or looser check.
- Look at the preview card to see the URL line, the blue title and the grey description together.
- When you are happy, copy the
<title>and<meta name="description">tags from HTML tags;&,<,>and"are escaped for you.
How it works
- Default limits: title about 600 px (texturb Google title pixel cut-off guide); description about 920 px on desktop (around 160 characters) and 680 px on mobile (around 130 characters) (interad meta description guide), retrieved 2026-10-04. These are secondary guides, not figures from Google. No mobile title width is given, so 600 px is reused.
- Text is measured with a 20 px (title) and 14 px (description) Arial-style font stack. Characters missing from Arial use your device’s fallback font, so results vary slightly between systems.
- The cut keeps the longest beginning that fits together with the ellipsis. It never splits an emoji or a combined character, steps back to a space if one falls within the last 15 percent of the kept text, and drops trailing spaces.
- Line breaks and repeated spaces collapse to a single space, as they do in results.
Examples
| Input | Device | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 50-character English title in sentence case | Desktop | Usually fits under 600 px |
| 70-character title in Title Case | Desktop | Often cut near the end |
| 130-character description | Desktop | Fits within 920 px |
| Same 130-character description | Mobile | Can run past 680 px and lose its last words |
Your exact result depends on the letters you use, so test the real wording.
FAQ
How many characters can a title have before Google cuts it?
There is no fixed character count. Google truncates by rendered width, and the guides this tool uses put the title limit at about 600 pixels. Narrow lowercase letters fit more, wide letters such as capitals or W fit fewer, and Korean or Chinese characters fewer still. Paste your real title to see where it ends.
Why does the real result look different from the preview?
Google does not publish its limits, it may rewrite titles and snippets to match a query, and fonts differ between devices. The preview is an approximation built on secondary guides, so leave some margin and put the important words first.
Can I change the pixel limits?
Yes. The title limit and the description limits for desktop and mobile each accept a whole number from 100 to 3000 pixels, so you can follow a different guide or check more strictly.
Why is the mobile title limit the same as desktop?
The guides used here give no separate mobile title width, so the desktop value of 600 pixels is the default. On phones the title often wraps onto two lines, so adjust the value if you have better data.
Is my text sent anywhere?
No. Measuring and previewing happen in your browser and nothing is stored or uploaded.
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