SERP & Social Preview

The “keep titles under 60 characters” rule is a rough proxy for the real constraint: Google truncates snippets at a rendered pixel width — roughly 580–600px for desktop titles at Arial 18px. Sixty wide characters (“W”, “M”, capitals) can blow the budget while seventy narrow ones (“i”, “l”, punctuation) fit comfortably. This tool measures your exact string on a canvas with the SERP fonts, so the truncation point you see here is the one searchers will see.

The sample-query field matters more than it looks: Google bolds query terms in descriptions (and historically in titles), and bold glyphs are wider than regular ones. A description that fits at regular weight can truncate once two or three terms render bold. The preview re-measures every segment at its true weight — which is why the meter can tick over the limit the moment you type a query that matches your copy.

Truncation isn't just cosmetic. A cut-off title loses its call to action; a truncated description hides the differentiator you wrote it for; and the date prefix — which Google adds for time-sensitive content — silently consumes ~90px of description budget. Write the payoff into the first 120 characters, front-load the keyword in the title, and keep your brand suffix expendable: if anything gets cut, let it be that.

Once the snippet reads well, check the rest of the page: run the full SEO Audit Pro for the other 80+ checks, and generate the finished markup — title, description, OG and Twitter tags in one block — with the Meta Tags Studio.