SERP Snippet Preview
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See where a search result would be cut off. The character counts everyone quotes are a proxy for the real rule: results truncate at a rendered width, so a title of wide letters is cut where the same number of narrow ones would not be. This measures your title and description and shows the truncated form, alongside the widths results are commonly cut at on desktop and mobile.
How to use SERP Preview
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Enter the page title, the URL, and the meta description.
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Switch between desktop and mobile — the widths differ.
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Click “Preview” to see the snippet and the measured pixel width of each line.
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Frequently asked questions
Why measure in pixels rather than characters?+
Because that is what a browser does. In the SERP font a W is about four times the width of an i, so “Wholesale Wool Wraps” and “Little Tin Titles” have the same character count and very different widths. A 60-character rule is right on average and wrong on any specific title — which is the only one you care about.
What are the exact limits?+
There are none, officially. Google publishes no number and changes the results layout regularly. The widths used here are the conventions the industry has settled on — around 580px for a desktop title and 920px for the description — and they are shown alongside the measurement rather than hidden behind a pass/fail light.
Google is showing a different title from the one I wrote.+
That is normal and increasingly common — Google rewrites the displayed title for a large share of results, usually pulling from the H1 or the anchor text of links pointing at the page. Writing a title that matches the page’s actual heading and search intent makes a rewrite less likely; nothing prevents it.
Does the description affect ranking?+
Not directly — it has not been a ranking factor for many years. It affects whether anyone clicks, which is worth writing well for on its own. If you leave it out, Google composes one from the page text, and the result is usually less persuasive than what you would have written.