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SERP snippet preview.
Type a title, URL and description, and see the result Google would show. Widths are measured in pixels with canvas, because that is how Google decides what to cut.
// Your snippet
// How Google would show it
Limits are approximations: 600px for the title, 960px for the description, measured in Arial at 20px and 14px.
// How it works
Google measures pixels.
Google decides what to trim from the rendered width of your text. This tool draws your title and description onto an off-screen canvas, asks the browser how wide they came out, and compares that against the widths where the trimming starts.
What it measures
- Title: Arial 20px, warned at 600px. That is the desktop rendering, which is the narrower of the two layouts Google uses.
- Description: Arial 14px, warned at 960px. Google usually shows two lines on desktop and can show more on mobile.
- URL: shown as the breadcrumb-style path Google displays, with the host and each path segment separated by a chevron.
What it approximates
Three things sit outside the tool's control. Google renders with its own font stack on its own hardware, so the metrics your browser reports are close rather than identical. The width available on a results page moves with device, sitelinks and ad load. And Google rewrites titles and descriptions when it thinks a different phrasing answers the query better, which happens on a large share of results.
How to use the numbers
Aim to land comfortably under each limit rather than right on it. Put the words that earn the click in the first two thirds of the title, so a truncation costs you the least important part. If the meter turns orange, the string is likely to be cut, and the preview shows you roughly where. Getting this consistent across a whole site is part of the technical work in our SEO service, and you can read the reasoning behind it in our guides.
Snippets, answered.
Google truncates on pixel width. A title of 60 narrow characters can fit where 55 wide ones do not, because a capital W is roughly four times the width of a lowercase i. Character counts are a rough proxy that fails exactly when your title is full of wide letters.
They are approximations. Google renders on its own machines with its own font stack, and the available width changes with device, layout, sitelinks and whatever else the results page is showing that day. Treat the limits as the point where truncation becomes likely rather than a hard cut-off.
Arial at 20px for the title and 14px for the description, matching what Google renders on desktop. Measurement happens through the canvas measureText API in your own browser, so if Arial is missing from your system the browser substitutes a fallback and the numbers shift slightly.
Often not. Google rewrites descriptions for most queries, pulling whatever passage from the page best answers what was typed. Your meta description is a strong hint for brand and navigational queries and gets ignored for a lot of long-tail ones. Write it anyway, and write the on-page copy well enough that the rewrite is still good.
No. Title and description length are not ranking factors. They affect click-through rate, which is a different problem worth solving on its own. A truncated title that cuts mid-word looks careless and costs clicks that the ranking already earned you.
It costs pixels you may need elsewhere. On pages where recognition drives the click, such as your homepage and service pages, keep it. On long-tail informational pages the query match matters more, so lead with that and let the brand sit at the end or drop off.
// Next step
Good titles are the easy part.
Ranking for the query in the first place takes technical work, content and links. That is the job we do.