Enter a title tag and meta description to see the snippet Google would render. Paste a URL first if you want to pull the live ones off a page.
Your meta description preview appears here as you type, truncated exactly the way Google would cut it off.
Character counts are the wrong unit
The usual advice hands you a character budget: 60 for the title, 160 for the description. Google doesn’t count characters. It renders your text and clips it where it stops fitting, so width decides, not length.
The gap is easy to see once you look for it. MMMMM and iiiii are both five characters and nowhere near the same width. Caps, wide letters, and punctuation all push the line further than a counter admits, which is why a title that measures “safe” at 58 characters can still lose its last two words.
What this measures instead
This tool renders your title and description into a real snippet at Google’s dimensions, then reads the box back to see whether the text overflows. There’s no hardcoded limit anywhere in it. The readout gives you the rendered width in pixels, the character count for reference, and the only answer that matters: fits, or will be truncated.
Switch between Desktop and Mobile before you commit to anything. They clip at different widths, and a title that survives one can lose its ending on the other.
Google may rewrite it anyway
A preview tells you what fits. It doesn’t tell you what Google displays. Google rewrites titles when it decides another version serves the query better, appends your site name where that helps, and swaps your meta description for a passage pulled off the page whenever the query suggests a better one.
So use this as a constraint check, not a promise. Fitting the box is the part you control, and it’s worth getting right, because a title clipped mid-phrase costs you the click before any of the rest of it matters.