SERP Snippet Preview
See your result the way Google renders it, measured in pixels rather than characters, on desktop and mobile.
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Mobile
Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. It all runs in your browser.
Why pixels, not characters
Google truncates on rendered width, not character count. "Illinois" and "WWWWWWWW" are both eight characters and nowhere near the same width, which is why character-count tools give the wrong answer for title-case headlines and anything with capitals.
This measures your text on a canvas in the font and size Google uses, then compares it to the width the SERP allows. Those widths are approximations of a layout Google changes regularly — treat them as a guide, not a guarantee.
- Google rewrites titles anyway, roughly a third of the time, usually when yours is vague, stuffed, or does not match the query.
- Descriptions are not a ranking factor, but they decide clicks, and Google will substitute its own snippet if yours does not answer the query.
- Front-load the useful words. Whatever is at the end is what gets cut.
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