Meta Tags Checker
Title, description, canonical and social tags
Fetch a page and read the tags that decide how it appears in search results and when it is shared. Title and description lengths are checked against what search engines actually display, and missing Open Graph tags are called out.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a title tag be?
Roughly 50 to 60 characters. Longer titles are not penalised, but Google truncates them in results, so the end of a long title is wasted.
How long should a meta description be?
Around 120 to 160 characters. Google frequently rewrites descriptions anyway, but a good one improves click-through when it is used.
What is a canonical tag for?
It tells search engines which URL is the authoritative version of a page when the same content is reachable at several addresses, so ranking signals are consolidated rather than split.