Meta Tags Checker

How it works

What we check

• Title tag length — Reads the <title> text and flags it. Aim for roughly 50–60 characters; we warn over 60 (Google truncates near ~600 pixels, usually around 60 chars) and under 10 (too thin to describe the page). A missing title is a hard fail.
• Meta description length — Checks the <meta name="description"> content. Best practice is ~120–160 characters; we warn over 160 (likely cut off in the snippet) and under 50 (wasting snippet space). A missing description is flagged because Google will then auto-generate one from page text.
• Canonical tag — Looks for <link rel="canonical">. A missing canonical is warned because it leaves duplicate-content handling up to the search engine. We surface the exact href so you can confirm it points where you intend.
• Robots directive — Reads <meta name="robots">. A noindex value is flagged as a hard fail — it tells search engines to drop the page from results. No robots tag is normal and defaults to index, follow.
• Viewport tag — Checks for <meta name="viewport">. A missing viewport is warned because the page may not render correctly on mobile, which matters under mobile-first indexing.
• Open Graph tags — Reads og:title, og:description, og:image and og:type — the tags Facebook and LinkedIn use to build a link preview. A missing og:image is the most expensive gap: links share with no thumbnail.
• Twitter Card tags — Checks twitter:card, twitter:title and twitter:image. twitter:card set to summary_large_image gives the big preview on X; missing twitter values fall back to the Open Graph equivalents, so we note that rather than failing them.

Common issues we catch

• Title too long and silently truncated — A 75-character title looks complete in your CMS field but Google cuts it at the pixel limit, often mid-word, in the live result. Your strongest keyword can end up off-screen. Trim to ~50–60 characters with the important words first.
• Missing meta description — With no description, Google scrapes a sentence from your page body — frequently boilerplate or a cookie notice. The page still ranks, but the snippet reads poorly and click-through drops. Write a 120–160 character description for every important page.
• Duplicate title and description across pages — Templated sites often output the same title and description on every page (e.g. just the brand name). Search engines see near-identical pages and may not show your preferred snippet. Each page needs its own unique tags.
• Accidental noindex left in place — A staging-site noindex robots tag that survives launch quietly keeps the page out of search entirely. The page looks normal in a browser — nothing visible signals the problem. This checker flags it immediately.
• Canonical pointing to the wrong URL — A canonical that points to the homepage or a different page (often a copy-paste leftover) tells Google to consolidate ranking signals onto that other URL instead of this one. The page can vanish from results even though it loads fine.
• Relative og:image URL — og:image must be an absolute URL (https://yourdomain.com/image.jpg). A relative path like /img/share.jpg works in the browser but social scrapers can't resolve it, so the share preview shows no image.
• Tags injected by JavaScript — Some frameworks set the title and meta tags client-side after load. They appear correct in your browser's rendered DOM but may be absent from the initial HTML that crawlers and social scrapers read. Check view-source, not just dev tools.

Where this matters

• Google Search — Uses the title tag and meta description to build the blue link and snippet (though it may rewrite either), reads the canonical to pick the indexed URL, and obeys the robots noindex directive absolutely.
• Facebook & LinkedIn — Both scrape Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image) to render a link card when your page is shared. No og:image means a flat, image-less link that gets far fewer clicks in a feed.
• X (Twitter) — Reads Twitter Card tags; twitter:card set to summary_large_image produces the large-image preview. Missing Twitter tags fall back to your Open Graph values, so getting Open Graph right covers most platforms.
• WordPress, Shopify & Wix — SEO plugins and theme settings (Yoast, Rank Math, Shopify theme fields) generate these tags for you — but defaults often produce duplicate titles or skip the social image. This tool shows what actually shipped to the page.
• Slack, WhatsApp & Discord — Link unfurling in messaging apps relies on the same Open Graph tags. A clean og:title and og:image means your link previews well everywhere a URL gets pasted, not just on social networks.