Title Tag Checker
Check a single title tag or paste hundreds from a crawl export. Each one is measured in characters and approximate pixels, shown where it would likely be cut off, and checked for keyword position, brand placement and duplicates across the list.
How to use the Title Tag Checker
Paste your titles
One per line. Export them from your CMS, a spreadsheet or a site crawler's “Page titles” report.
Add a keyword and brand (optional)
The keyword is used to check position; the brand to check whether it's at the start, end or missing.
Choose a width budget
Desktop results usually show one line; mobile results often allow two.
Sort out the flagged rows
Fix duplicates and truncated titles first, then download the CSV to track changes.
What it checks
- Length
- Characters (counted as people see them, so emoji and accents count once), words, and approximate pixel width in Arial 20px.
- Truncation point
- Where the title would likely be cut with an ellipsis within the chosen width budget.
- Keyword position
- Whether the focus keyword appears, and how far from the start.
- Brand placement
- Whether your brand is at the start, the end, in the middle or missing.
- Formatting
- Repeated words, all-caps titles, doubled separators and leading or trailing punctuation.
- Duplicates
- Identical titles within the list, ignoring case and extra spaces.
Interpreting the results
The table gives each title a status: OK, Check (worth a look) or Fix (empty, duplicated or well over the width budget). The visible part column shows roughly what a searcher would see before the ellipsis.
Width budgets of about 580px (desktop) and 920px (mobile, across two lines) are approximations of how much space results have historically offered. Search engines don't publish limits, change their layouts, and often rewrite titles — adding the site name, trimming boilerplate or using a heading from the page instead. So treat “Check” as a prompt to confirm the important words come first, not as a hard rule.
Detected marks facts read directly from what you provided. Guidance marks general recommendations based on those facts — rules of thumb, not guarantees or search engine requirements.
Practical guidance
Good titles are specific and front-loaded. Compare “Home | Example Co” with “Wooden Garden Sheds — 6×4 to 10×8 | Example Co”: the second tells a searcher exactly what they'll find. If many rows come back as duplicates, it usually means a template is generating titles from a category name only; adding the product or topic to the pattern fixes whole sections at once.
Keep the keyword natural. Repeating it (“Garden Sheds – Cheap Garden Sheds – Garden Sheds UK”) is flagged because it reads badly and search engines may rewrite such titles. The same principle applies to link anchors: variety reads naturally, repetition doesn't — see What is anchor text?.
Once titles are tidy, a page is better prepared for promotion through backlink packages or PBN backlinks. To check descriptions the same way, use the Meta Description Checker; to see title and description together, use the SERP Snippet Preview.
Limitations
- Pixel widths are measured with Arial in your browser. Actual result fonts, sizes and layouts vary and change over time.
- It checks the text you provide. It can't fetch titles from URLs or tell you which title a search engine currently shows.
- Keyword matching is exact-phrase and case-insensitive; it doesn't recognise synonyms or word forms.
Frequently asked questions
How long should a title tag be?
Long enough to describe the page clearly. On desktop that usually means roughly 50–60 characters before truncation, but width depends on the letters used — which is why this tool measures pixels too.
Should the brand go first or last?
Usually last, so the page topic is visible first. Brand-first can make sense for the homepage or for very well-known brands.
Why does the search result show a different title?
Search engines may rewrite titles that are too long, repetitive or don't match the page. A clear, accurate title is less likely to be rewritten.
Can I check more than 200 titles?
Not in one go — the limit keeps the page fast. Split larger lists into batches.
Related tools
- Meta Description Checker
Check descriptions for width, truncation, keyword use, quotes and duplicates — in bulk. - SERP Snippet Preview
Preview a title, description and URL together as a search result on desktop or mobile. - Meta Tag Generator
Write a clean set of title, description, robots, canonical and social tags. - Keyword Prominence Checker
See where a keyword appears in a page: title, H1, opening, subheadings, URL, alt text.
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