Preview your title tag and meta description the way a searcher sees them. Every line is measured in pixels against Google’s approximate column width on desktop, tablet and mobile, so you see the cut before you publish.
Desktop · 600px column
Type a title tag and meta description to see how your result may look on Googledesktop, tablet and mobile, measured in pixels with a live ruler for each line.
Google never promised “60 characters”. Its result column has a fixed width, and titles are drawn in a proportional font where an i is a sliver and a W is nearly four times wider. Two titles of identical character count can land on either side of the cut.
This simulator renders your text into a canvas in the same font metrics Google uses for desktop results, adds up the width of every glyph, then wraps and truncates at word boundaries the way results are drawn, ending an overflowing line with “...”.
Try the title length checker to see the letter-by-letter effect, or the meta description length checker to watch where a description breaks as the screen narrows.
| Layout | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Desktop | 20px · ~600px · 1 line | 14px · ~600px · 2 lines |
| Tablet | 20px · ~560px · 2 lines | 14px · ~560px · 3 lines |
| Mobile | 18px · ~326px · 2 lines | 14px · ~326px · 3 lines |
Approximations from observing Google’s layout; Google publishes no fixed limits and changes font sizes and widths from time to time. Descriptions may also be shortened by Google regardless of width.
Google Search Central’s documentation on title links says Google’s generation of the title link is automatic and draws on several sources: the <title> element, the main visual heading, other headings, anchor text of links pointing to the page and more. Its guide to snippets says the snippet comes primarily from page content, and the meta description is used when it describes the page better than the on-page text.
So a preview shows what you’ve asked for, not a guarantee. What you control is giving Google a title and description that are accurate, specific and fit, which makes them the obvious pick. The snippet guide walks through the reasons Google rewrites and how to avoid them.
Yes. The simulator, the pixel meters, the bulk checker and the examples are free and need no account. The AI rewrite buttons are free too, with a per-minute limit so the service stays available for everyone.
Text is measured on a canvas with Arimo, a font metric-compatible with Arial, which Google uses for result text on desktop. Widths therefore match within a few pixels, but Google does not publish fixed limits and changes its layout, so treat every limit here as an approximation.
There is no official character limit. Google cuts title links by available width, which on desktop is roughly 600 pixels. That is often 50–60 characters, but a title full of narrow letters fits more and one with capitals and wide letters fits fewer.
Google Search Central explains that title links and snippets are generated automatically. Google usually uses your title element and meta description, but can pick other text from the page, such as a heading or a passage matching the query, when it judges that to describe the page better.
On phones the result column is narrower (about 330 pixels here) and Google lets titles wrap, so a title that is cut on desktop can show in full on mobile, and vice versa for long descriptions.
Your draft and any saved versions stay in your own browser (localStorage). Nothing is sent to a server unless you press Fetch (we fetch that URL once) or an AI button (the text is sent to generate suggestions and not stored).