SERP title
pixel checker
Google cuts titles by pixels, not characters. Type yours and watch a real Google-style preview - desktop and mobile - show exactly where the ellipsis lands.
Will Google cut your title?
Honest footnote on the measurement: we measure with Arial - the family Google actually renders titles with on most systems - at 20px for desktop titles, 18px for mobile titles and 14px for descriptions. The budgets (580px desktop / 830px mobile for titles, 990px / 1300px for descriptions) are the community-measured approximations; Google does not publish exact limits and adjusts them from time to time. Treat the red zone as "will very likely be cut", not a law of physics.
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What Google actually
does to your title
Pixels, not characters
Google clips at a pixel budget. "WWW" is three characters and 44 pixels; "ill" is three characters and 12. Character counters lie to you.
The cut point
The ellipsis lands mid-word, wherever the budget runs out. If your brand name sits at the end, it is the first thing to vanish.
Clicks are the prize
A title cut at "Wood-fired Neapolitan piz..." earns fewer clicks than one that finishes its sentence. This is free CTR.
Dates eat your budget
When Google prefixes a date to your snippet, it comes out of the description budget - about 110 pixels you did not plan for.
Mobile is different
Mobile shows titles bigger but wraps them across two lines - some titles survive on mobile and die on desktop, and vice versa.
Front-load the point
Put the words people search for first and the brand last. If truncation strikes, the part that ranks and gets clicked survives.
People also ask
How many pixels can a title tag be before Google truncates it?
On desktop Google shows roughly 580 pixels of a title before cutting it with an ellipsis; on mobile it is closer to 830 pixels across up to two lines. Google measures rendered width, not characters, so a title full of wide letters like W and M gets cut sooner than one full of narrow i and l letters.
Is 60 characters a safe length for a title tag?
Usually, but not always. 60 characters of narrow letters fit fine, while 55 characters of wide capitals can already overflow. That is exactly why this tool measures pixels: character counts are only a rough proxy for what Google actually clips.
Does Google always use the meta description I write?
No - Google rewrites descriptions for a majority of queries when it thinks a snippet from the page answers the search better. A well-written description that fits the pixel budget still matters: it is used often, and it is what social networks and AI assistants fall back on.