How many pixels is a meta description?
New Google’s meta description length is up to 920 pixels, which might allow for up to 158 characters. On mobile devices, the max limit is about 680 pixels and 120 characters.
What is the size of meta Title?
There is no official document from Google that says you must consider 70 as the character limit of title and 160 as the limit for the meta description. Google cares little about the characters that you use but is more watchful of the number of pixels used by each character.
What is the character size for meta title and description?
Meta descriptions can be any length, but Google generally truncates snippets to ~155–160 characters. It’s best to keep meta descriptions long enough that they’re sufficiently descriptive, so we recommend descriptions between 50–160 characters.
How do I find meta title and description?
If you want to find out whether a given page is using meta tags, just right-click anywhere on the page and select “View Page Source.” A new tab will open in Chrome (in Firefox, it’ll be a pop-up window). The part at the top, or “head” of the page, is where the meta tags would be.
What is the ideal length of a meta description?
The ideal meta description length is 155-160 symbols with spaces. Let us consider several examples of quality meta descriptions.
How are pixel widths calculated for meta descriptions?
For meta descriptions, Google currently conform to word boundaries, so that pixel or two difference can mean an entire word difference between the real SERPs and our SERP snippet emulator. There seems to be some pixel width discrepancies between platforms when calculating pixel widths for the same text using the same font.
How to calculate page title and meta description?
As outlined in our 2.30 release notes, the Screaming Frog SEO spider now calculates the pixel width of page titles and meta descriptions and has a SERP snippet emulator in the lower window tab.
How to calculate page title by pixel width?
Google calculate the pixel width of the characters used in titles with a limit of 512 pixels. Anything over this limit, Google truncate the title with CSS and include an ellipsis. ‘Over 512px’ is now our default filter in the page title tab. Google now use 18px Arial for the title element, previously it was 16px.
How many characters should be in a meta description?
Best practice in 2019, is the same as in 2018 – keep it from 120 to 158 characters. To check your meta descriptions, use the counter tool above. In our previous guide about what is a meta description, we did a quick test to prove, that meta description length doesn’t depend on the number of characters but on the width in pixels.