SEO Title Length Checker and Preview
Paste a title tag and this checker estimates how wide it is in pixels, shows where a desktop or a mobile result could cut it off, and draws a preview of the title link. It also flags a brand used twice, a title in capitals and stray separators. Every figure is an estimate made inside your browser, and nothing you paste is uploaded.
Quick answer: Google sets no fixed length for a title. Its guide to title links, checked on 2 November 2026, says there is no limit on how long a title element can be, and that the title link is truncated as needed, typically to fit the device width. The widths this tool shows are estimates, not Google figures.
Measured in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded or saved.
Limits: Up to 4 KB of title text. Larger input is refused with a message. The brand and address boxes have no cap of their own.
Results
- Characters
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- Estimated width, 20 px Arial
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- Desktop estimate, 600 px budget
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- Mobile estimate, 500 px budget
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Title link preview
An approximation drawn from the estimates above, not a copy of a real results page.
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How to use the SEO Title Length Checker and Preview
- Paste the text of your page's title element into the box, without the tags around it.
- Add your brand in the settings to have repeats of it flagged, and a page address for the preview line.
- Read the estimated width and the desktop and mobile results, then see where the preview puts the ellipsis.
- Rewrite until the words that matter sit before the cut on both devices.
Worked example
A recipe blog's title with the site name at the end, a few pixels over the desktop estimate. Press Load the example to measure it with the brand setting listed below; these are the results the checker shows in Chrome with Arial installed.
How to Make a Sourdough Starter in Seven Days | Bakehouse Notes
- Brand or site name
- Bakehouse Notes
- Page address
- https://www.example.com/recipes/sourdough-starter/
- Characters
- 63
- Estimated width, 20 px Arial
- 611
- Desktop estimate, 600 px budget
- Cut after 57 of 63 characters
- Mobile estimate, 500 px budget
- Cut after 45 of 63 characters
How to read the results
- Characters
- Letters, spaces and symbols as you see them, after runs of spaces and line breaks are collapsed the way a browser shows a title. An emoji or a flag counts once.
- Estimated width
- The whole title measured on one line in Arial at 20 px with kerning off, rounded to a whole pixel. This is the figure the budgets are compared with.
- Desktop and mobile estimates
- Fits, with the pixels to spare, or the point where the estimate would cut: the number of characters kept out of the total, after backing up to the last whole word and adding an ellipsis.
- Title link preview
- The title as the estimate would show it on each device, under the site name and page address from the settings. The desktop frame is 600 px wide when the screen allows it, so a title that fits stays on one line.
- Checks
- A warning points at something likely to cost you, such as a cut on both devices or a brand used twice. A note is information you may act on or ignore, such as a short title or two separators.
How this tool works and its limitations
The title is measured with the canvas measureText method of your own browser, in the font stack Arial, Helvetica, Liberation Sans, Arimo, then sans serif, at 20 px, with kerning switched off. Helvetica, Liberation Sans and Arimo are listed because they share Arial's letter widths, which keeps results close across Windows, Mac and Linux. To catch a computer that has none of them, the page also measures a pangram whose width in Arial is 395.75 px and warns when the result differs by more than half a percent. In Chromium on a Mac, the fonts tested gave that sentence widths from about 8 percent narrower to 15 percent wider than Arial, so the check matters.
Arial at 20 px for a title is a common assumption among SEO preview tools; Google does not document its result fonts. The 600 px desktop and 500 px mobile budgets come from the range that tool makers publish, and those figures disagree with each other more for phones than for desktops. When a title is wider than a budget, the checker finds the longest start that fits with an ellipsis, then backs up to the last whole word and drops a trailing separator. Google's guidance quoted on this page was read on 2 November 2026. The limits below still apply:
- Google publishes no title length in characters or pixels, so the 600 px and 500 px budgets are this tool's reference figures, not Google's.
- Google may show a different title link than your title element, built from a heading, og:title or link text, and no tool outside Google can see that choice.
- The width is measured with the fonts on your computer. Without Arial or a font with its widths, the page warns you and the estimates shift by the stated share.
- Emoji and letters that Arial lacks are drawn with another font, so their width is less certain than that of Latin text.
- Real result pages change their fonts, sizes and layout over time and by screen, so a title that just fits here can still be cut.
- The title box takes up to 4 KB of text and refuses more with a message, while the brand and address boxes set no cap of their own.
Features
- Width in pixels, measured in Arial at 20 px, the size this checker assumes for a title link.
- Separate desktop and mobile estimates, because results are cut to fit the width of the screen.
- A preview that stops at the last whole word that fits and ends with an ellipsis, where the estimate says.
- Warnings, never a pass or a fail, for repeated brands, capitals and separators at either end.
Why title length is a question of pixels
Width depends on the letters you use. In Arial at 20 px a capital W measures 18.9 px and a lowercase l 4.4 px, so the same 45 characters of a sourdough headline take 437 px in normal case and 559 px in capitals. A character count can only guess at that, which is why this checker measures instead.
What Google may change in your title
The title element is the main source of a title link, but not the only one. Google's guide to title links lists headings such as the h1, og:title tags, text in links to the page and WebSite structured data as other sources. It names the cases where Google is most likely to rewrite: a half empty title, an outdated year, a title that misdescribes the page, near identical titles across a section, and a language that differs from the page. The preview here shows your own title element; it cannot show what Google will pick.
Writing a title that survives the cut
Lead with the subject of the page, because the end is what disappears first. Google's guide asks for titles that are descriptive and concise, warns against repeating the same words to stuff them in, and suggests keeping the brand short: if you include the site name, add it at the start or the end with one delimiter such as a hyphen, colon or pipe. Give every page its own title, since identical ones make pages hard to tell apart in results.
Frequently asked questions
How many characters can a title tag have?
Google states no number for characters or pixels. What fits depends on the letters: the 63 character example on this page measures 611 px, a little over this tool's 600 px desktop estimate.
Why might Google show a different title from the one I wrote?
Google builds title links automatically and may use your main heading, an og:title tag or link text instead, especially when the title element is vague, outdated or repetitive. Its fonts and layout also differ from this preview.
Will a shorter title rank better?
This checker makes no ranking claim; it measures length and spots presentation problems. Google calls the title link often the main thing people use to decide which result to click, which is reason enough to make it read well before the cut.
Should the brand go at the start or the end?
Google's guide shows both, separated from the rest by one delimiter. At the end, the brand is the first part a narrow screen cuts; at the start, it pushes the subject toward the cut. Most pages lead with the subject.
Why do desktop and mobile give different results?
A phone has less width for each line, and Google truncates to fit the device. This checker models that with two reference budgets, 600 px on desktop and 500 px on mobile, both measured at 20 px.
Is my title sent or saved anywhere?
No. The width is measured by a canvas inside this page, the text stays in this tab and nothing is written to browser storage. Reloading the page clears the box.
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