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Meta Description Length Checker — Characters & Pixels

See how your title tag and meta description will look in Google search results — live desktop and mobile snippet preview with character and pixel counters.

Title length
0 / 60 characters
0 / 600 px (approx.)
Description length
0 / 160 characters
0 / 960 px (approx.)
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Pixel widths are measured with Arial font metrics in your browser and are an approximation — Google's exact fonts and limits change over time. Nothing is fetched from your URL: all input is manual and stays in your browser.

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Result

This page opens the SERP preview with the meta description field in focus — paste your description and watch the character and pixel counters plus the rendered snippet update as you type.

The classic advice says 160 characters, but Google actually truncates descriptions by pixel width — around 960 px on desktop — so a description full of wide letters like m and w gets cut earlier than a narrow one of the same length. This checker measures both: characters against the 160 guideline and real rendered width using Arial font metrics, a close approximation of what Google uses.

Keep in mind that Google rewrites descriptions for many queries no matter how well you trim them — a good length only makes it more likely your own text is shown intact. The full tool also checks your title tag and previews the whole snippet on desktop and mobile.

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Executed in Browser

Your files and inputs never leave this device. Processing runs completely offline. 100% Secure.

Accepted Formats & Rules

  • Desktop and mobile preview modes with device-specific pixel limits (~600 px title / ~960 px description on desktop).
  • Dual counters for both fields: characters against the 60/160 guidelines and pixels against the device limit, turning red when exceeded.
  • Google-style snippet mock with favicon placeholder, breadcrumb URL path and … truncation exactly where the text overflows.

Key Benefits

✓ Live preview: the mock snippet redraws on every keystroke, so you see truncation with the … ellipsis before Google ever shows it.
✓ Pixel-accurate-ish counters: width is measured with real canvas font metrics (Arial), a much better signal than counting characters alone — and honestly labeled as an approximation.
✓ Fully private: nothing is fetched and nothing is uploaded — you type the title, description and URL yourself, and they never leave your browser.

Use Cases

  • • Check whether a new title tag survives Google's ~600 px desktop cut-off before deploying it.
  • • Trim a meta description to the 160-character and pixel-width budget without losing the call to action.
  • • Preview the snippet on a phone-width screen, where the limits are tighter than on desktop.