justyourseoMeta Description Checker
Check your meta description's length and preview the snippet.
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Meta description checker
Check a description's length before Google cuts it
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How to use the meta description checker
Three steps, all in your browser.
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Enter a description
Type or paste the meta description you want to check.
- 2
Check the preview
The preview and the length checks update as you type.
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Copy the result
Copy what you need in one click. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
Meta Description Checker: what to know
A meta description is a short summary of a page in the head of the HTML. Google doesn't use it for ranking, but it often shows it as the snippet under your title, which makes it your best chance to tell searchers why your page answers their question. The meta description checker counts characters, estimates the pixel width and previews where the snippet could be truncated.
Google truncates snippets by width: roughly 920 pixels on desktop, which is usually 150 to 160 characters, and less on mobile. There's no penalty for a longer description, but anything past the limit is hidden behind an ellipsis, so put the essential information first. Very short descriptions are fine for simple pages, though they leave room unused.
Google rewrites snippets often, choosing text from the page that matches the query better than your description does. That's normal and not a sign of a problem. Descriptions that are unique to each page, specific and accurate are used more often than generic ones repeated across a whole site.
Popular uses
- Writing descriptions for new pages and blog posts
- Fixing truncated snippets in search results
- Replacing duplicate descriptions found in an audit
- Checking descriptions written by a CMS plugin or template
Tips for the best result
- Write for the searcher: say what they'll find, then why yours is worth the click.
- Include the main topic naturally; Google bolds words that match the query.
- Don't put quotes in a description without escaping them in the HTML; a raw double quote ends the attribute early.
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