Google SERP Snippet Preview

See your search result before Google does

Your title and meta description are often the first thing a potential visitor reads. If the title is cut off halfway through a key phrase, or the description ends mid-sentence, fewer people click — even if you rank well. This SERP (search engine results page) preview shows a realistic mock-up of your result on desktop and mobile, so you can fix truncation and polish your wording before you publish.

How to use the preview

1. Enter your page title, meta description and URL.
2. Optionally add search terms to see them in bold, and a date if your result shows one.
3. Switch between desktop and mobile views.
4. Watch the width meters: green is comfortable, amber is close to the limit, red will be cut off.
5. Edit until the important words are visible, then copy the tags from the Meta Tags Generator.

Your title, description and URL are shared with the Meta Tags Generator and Social Share Preview on this device.

Why pixels, not characters?

Google’s own guidance is that there’s no fixed length for titles or descriptions — results are truncated as needed to fit the device width. Because letters have different widths, “MMMMM WWWWW” takes more than three times as much room as “iiiii lllll” with the same number of characters. This tool measures the rendered width of your text in the fonts Google uses and cuts it at a word boundary with an ellipsis, as search results do.

The limits used — about 600px for desktop titles and 920px of description text — are approximations of the current layout, because Google doesn’t publish exact numbers and adjusts its design from time to time. Treat them as a guide and leave a little margin.

Tips for better snippets

• Lead with the topic. Put the main keyword and benefit at the start of the title so it survives truncation.
• Use your brand at the end, separated by a dash or pipe, so it’s the part that gets cut if space runs out.
• Write descriptions as a pitch: what the page offers and why it’s worth clicking, in one or two sentences.
• Make every page unique. Duplicate titles and descriptions make it hard for Google — and users — to tell pages apart.
• Match the page. Google may rewrite titles and pick other snippets when yours don’t reflect the content.

Desktop versus mobile

Many searches happen on phones, where results are narrower and titles can wrap onto more lines. Check both views: a title that fits on desktop may lose its last words on mobile, and descriptions show a different amount of text.

Generate the final tags with the Meta Tags Generator, check how the page looks when shared with the Social Share Preview, and add structured data with the Schema Markup Generator.