Google SERP Snippet Preview
See your title and description as a Google result — on a desktop and a phone.
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- ~4 ms
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Overview
About this tool
Draws your title tag and meta description as Google draws them, measuring the fold in pixels rather than characters, on both the 600-pixel desktop column and the narrower phone one. The part that gets cut is greyed out in place.
Instructions
How to use it
Paste the title tag and meta description you plan to publish. Both are drawn immediately as a desktop result and as a phone result, with anything past the fold greyed out rather than deleted — seeing the sentence that gets cut is the point.
Why character counts are wrong
Google truncates on pixel width, in a fixed column. A title of “Will It Fit? A Guide” and one of “illinois trivia night” are eleven and twenty-one characters, and the shorter one is wider. Every “keep it under 60 characters” rule is a rounding of the real constraint, and it is wrong in both directions — capitals and W’s blow through it, while an i-heavy title has room to spare.
The phone result is the one to design for
A phone gives the title a second line and the snippet a third, in a much narrower column. That is more total room and a far earlier first-line break, so a title whose first four words are generic reads as generic on the surface where most of the clicks happen.
Questions
Frequently asked
Will Google actually show what I typed?
Often, but not always. Google rewrites titles it judges unhelpful and replaces the meta description whenever a passage on the page answers the query better. This shows what you submitted, which is the half you control.
What pixel limits does this use?
The result column rather than a single number: roughly 600 pixels on desktop with one line for the title and two for the snippet, and a narrower phone column with an extra line for each. Widths are measured with Arial metrics at the sizes Google renders.
Does the URL matter?
Only for the crumb trail. Google has not shown a raw URL in a result for years — it draws the site name and the path segments, which is what this draws too.
Should I write to fill the whole description?
No. Write the promise the first paragraph keeps, and stop. A description padded to hit a width reads as padding, and the last clause is the one at risk of being cut anyway.
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