Why preview your title and description
Your title tag and meta description are your ad in the search results. They don't directly change rankings much, but they decide whether people click. Google truncates titles and descriptions by pixel width, not by a fixed number of characters, so a title with lots of wide letters gets cut sooner than one with narrow letters. This checker measures width the way the results page renders it.
Guidelines the checker uses
- Title: up to about 580 pixels on desktop (roughly 50–60 characters). Lead with the keyword and the benefit; put your brand at the end.
- Description: about 920 pixels on desktop (roughly 150–160 characters), less on mobile. Put the key promise in the first half.
- Keyword: include it naturally. Google bolds words that match the search, which draws the eye.
- Reason to click: a benefit or call to action (“Get a free quote in 2 minutes”) beats a list of keywords.
Google may rewrite them
Google sometimes shows a different title or snippet when it thinks another part of the page better matches the search. Clear, accurate tags that describe the page honestly are the most likely to be shown as written. For the rest of on-page basics, PageScore's full audit also checks your H1, canonical URL, Open Graph tags and structured data.