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How your result will read

Paste a title and a meta description to see roughly how they will read in a search result, with a length verdict for each. Google measures pixels rather than characters, so character counts are a proxy, and Google rewrites a large share of titles anyway. Treat this as a sanity check.

Last reviewed 27 August 2026

Checked against both fields and against where it appears in the title.

Result

Estimated title width

517 px

83% of a 60 character title of average letter width, by this model

Search result preview

acme.com > product-analytics
Product analytics for B2B SaaS teams | Acme Analytics
Product analytics that reports at the account level: which accounts use which features, which onboarding step loses people, what predicts renewal.

Field check

Field check
FieldMeasureTargetVerdict
Title5350 to 60Pass
Description146140 to 155Pass
Query in titleAt the startPresent, earlyPass
Query in descriptionPresentPresentPass

Nothing here gets truncated. Two honest caveats: Google measures pixel width rather than characters, so a title in capitals can overflow at 55 characters while a lowercase one survives past 60, and Google rewrites titles frequently. Write for the human reading the result, not for the counter.

How this works

What the numbers mean.

  • 01The preview stacks the three parts of a result in reading order: the URL breadcrumb, the title, and the description snippet. It is deliberately plain text, because the useful question is whether the words work, not whether the font matches.
  • 02The width estimate assigns each character a proportional width by class, narrow for letters like i and l, wide for m and w, and larger again for capitals, then scales the total to a twenty pixel font. It is an approximation of the metric Google actually applies, and it exists to catch titles that overflow well before the character count says they should.
  • 03The query check looks at where your primary query appears rather than how many times. Position matters because truncation happens from the right, and repetition does not help at all.

Assumptions and limits

  • The 50 to 60 and 140 to 155 character ranges are widely used conventions, not published limits. The real constraint is pixel width, which varies by font, device, and result type.
  • The width figure is produced by a character-class approximation in this tool, not by measuring a rendered font. Treat it as a relative signal.
  • Google frequently replaces the title it shows with text drawn from your H1, your on-page headings, or anchor text pointing at the page. Rewriting is normal and is not a penalty.

Questions about this tool

Why does Google rewrite my titles?
Because Google picks the title it thinks best describes the page for a specific query, and your title tag is one of several candidates alongside your H1 and the anchor text of links pointing at the page. The most common triggers are titles stuffed with keywords, titles that are near-duplicates across a site, and titles that ignore the query entirely.
Pixels or characters, which should I optimise for?
Pixels are what Google measures, characters are what you can count. The practical answer is to use the character range as a guide and then look at the words: a title of short lowercase words fits comfortably at 62 characters, while an all-capitals title of wide letters can truncate at 52. If it looks dense, shorten it.
Should the brand go in every title?
It depends on whether anyone knows your brand yet. For a recognised name it earns clicks and costs about a dozen characters. For an unknown one it spends your most valuable characters on a word nobody is searching for. Google adds and removes brand suffixes on its own anyway, so this is a weaker lever than it feels like.
Does the description affect ranking?
No. It affects whether someone clicks, and Google often ignores it entirely in favour of a passage lifted from the page that better matches the query. Write it as the sentence that makes your result the obvious one to pick, and accept that it will sometimes be replaced.

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