Meta Description Checker

Google renders results in its own font and layout, which varies by device, locale, and ongoing design changes on their end — no third-party tool can measure the real thing exactly. This uses a widely used approximate Arial character-width table as a practical guide, not a guarantee.

Paste your title and description directly instead of a live URL — that keeps everything client-side (no server fetching your page for you) and lets you preview a draft before it's even published.

There's no hard limit Google enforces, but descriptions around 120-158 characters (roughly 70-160 as a safer range) are the least likely to get truncated on desktop. Mobile and different SERP features can show more or less.

No — Google frequently rewrites or replaces it with page content it thinks answers the search query better, especially if your description doesn't closely match the query. Writing a good one still helps for the searches where it does get used.

Yes — the title field has its own separate length check (up to 160 characters) alongside the meta description check, since both can be truncated independently.