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Paste a title and description and see where they get cut. Every other tool like this counts characters. Google fits text into a box of a certain width, which is why one 58 character title survives and another does not.

The page

Title tag

The contents of your <title>, not your H1. They are usually different and should be.

Meta description

Google rewrites this most of the time. Write it anyway: when it does use yours, yours is better than the sentence it would have scraped.

URL

Shown as a breadcrumb trail, not as a URL. Long folder names cost you more than long file names.

What is being measured

Every tool like this counts characters. Google does not count characters. It fits text into a box of a certain width, so a title full of capitals and Ws gets cut sooner than the same number of narrow letters. That is why your 58 character title is truncated while someone else's 64 character one survives.

What is measured here: the text is laid out in Arial at the sizes Google renders at, inside the widths it renders into, and cut where the browser would cut it. That is as close as anyone outside Google can get.

Treat the numbers as a strong signal rather than a specification. The widths move, they differ by device and by query, and a result with sitelinks or a date behaves differently again. Nothing here is a ranking factor. This is about whether the sentence a person reads is the one you wrote.

How it lands

Nothing here leaves your browser

There is no server behind this page. What you type is held in the tab you are looking at, it is not sent anywhere, it is not stored, and closing the tab discards it. You can confirm that yourself: open your browser's network panel and use the tool. Nothing goes out.

And no email address

A tool that holds its answer back until you identify yourself is not a tool, it is a form with a costume on. If this is useful, use it. If you later want someone to do the work, you know where to find me.

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Tell me what you are trying to fix

Send over the site you have now, or the one you wish you had. I will tell you honestly whether I am the right person for it.

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