Your title tag is your ad in Google's results: too long and it gets chopped mid-word, wasting your best hook. This tool renders your snippet exactly as Google will and measures in the pixels Google actually uses.
Updated August 15, 2026, after a fresh review, with updated visuals and links.
Type your title, description and URL and watch the preview plus pixel widths update on every keystroke.
Why pixels, not characters
Google truncates at roughly 580 pixels for titles and 920 pixels for descriptions: character counts lie because W eats five times the space of i. This tool measures real rendered width in a canvas, like Google does.
Keyword-front-load the title: 'Percentage Calculator - Free Online Tool' beats 'Welcome to my website about tools', because truncation protects the beginning and users scan left to right.
Meta descriptions are your click-through pitch, not a ranking factor, and Google rewrites them around 60% of the time anyway when your text better matches the query.
Worth remembering
- Include the year for freshness-driven queries ('...in 2026'): CTR studies consistently reward the current-year signal.
- Duplicate titles across pages compete against each other in rankings: run every important URL through once.
Frequently asked
Is the 60-character rule still valid?
Approximately: 60 average-width characters fit in 580 pixels, but narrow letters squeeze more in and wide caps fewer. Pixel measurement is the honest version.
Why does Google show different text than my meta description?
Google picks snippet text matching the query terms; a well-written meta that contains the query naturally usually survives, generic ones get replaced.
