Free Google SERP Snippet Preview & Meta Tag Checker

Google doesn't cut your title and meta description off by character count — it truncates by pixel width, which is why two titles with the same number of letters can wrap differently. In practice, that works out to roughly 50–60 characters for titles and 150–160 characters for descriptions before you risk an ellipsis mid-sentence. Wide letters like W and M eat more pixels than narrow ones like i and l, which is why these are guidelines, not hard limits.

Neither field is a direct ranking factor on its own, but both shape whether someone actually clicks your result once it's on the page — and click-through rate is one of the clearer behavioral signals search engines do factor in over time. A title cut off mid-word, or a description that trails into "…", reads as unfinished and costs clicks a well-written one would have earned.

A few things worth checking while you're here: put your target keyword near the front of the title, since it's what both users and Google's bolding logic key off first; write a unique description for every important page instead of reusing a site-wide one; and remember Google reserves the right to rewrite your title if it thinks a different one better matches the query — clarity beats cleverness here.