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Google cuts titles by pixels, not characters.

Most length checkers count characters. Google doesn't. Paste your title and see the width we actually measured, and where the cut would land.

No signup. Nothing leaves your browser — the measurement runs on this page.

Your title

Google often appends your site name. Include it — it costs width too.

— Type a title to measure it.

~600 px is the desktop figure SEO tools commonly cite — not a published Google spec. The real cut-off moves with device, font weight and character set.

Mobile results are narrower than desktop. A title that just fits here can still be cut on a phone.

How it would look

example.com › blog › post

Approximation of a desktop result. Fonts and spacing differ slightly from Google's own rendering.

WHY PIXELS

Why character counts get this wrong

Two titles with the same character count can be very different widths.

Letters are not the same width

In Arial, a lowercase 'i' is about a quarter the width of a capital 'W'. A 55-character title full of narrow letters fits; the same length full of wide ones does not. Character count cannot see this.

Your brand suffix costs width

Google often appends the site name to titles it rewrites. If you measure the title alone and Google adds nine more characters, the number you checked was never the number that mattered.

CJK characters are roughly double width

One Chinese character takes about the space of two Latin letters. A 30-character Chinese title can be wider than a 55-character English one — the same 'under 60 characters' rule gives opposite answers.

Getting cut is not automatically bad

A truncated title still ranks. What you lose is the end of the sentence — so put the thing that earns the click at the front, and treat the cut-off as where the persuasion has to be done by.

FAQ

Questions this raises

Is 600 px an official Google number?
No. It is the desktop figure SEO tools have converged on, and it is close enough to be useful — but Google has never published a pixel limit, and the real cut-off shifts with device, font rendering and character set. Treat it as a line to stay clear of, not a spec to optimise against.
Does my title even get used?
Often it does not. Google rewrites titles for a large share of results, using your H1, anchor text or on-page headings instead. Writing a title that fits is still worth doing — it is the version you control — but if your measured title never shows up in results, that is a different problem from length.
Why does the number move slightly between browsers?
We measure with the browser's own text engine, so the figure reflects the fonts installed on your machine. Different browsers and operating systems render Arial slightly differently. The variation is a few pixels, not tens.
Do you send my title anywhere?
No. The measurement runs in your browser and nothing is sent to us. There is no account, no email field, and nothing is stored — close the tab and it is gone.
What about the description underneath?
Same principle, different budget — descriptions get roughly 920 px on desktop. Our meta description generator measures those the same way, and also drafts candidates for you.
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