Meta Tags Analyzer
Deep scan of SEO tags, Open Graph, and Social Cards
Why meta tags still matter for SEO
Meta tags are snippets of HTML in a page's <head> that don't display on the page itself but tell search engines and social platforms how to describe it — the title tag and meta description are what most people see as the blue link and snippet in Google's results, and Open Graph tags control how a link looks when shared on social media.
Titles and descriptions that are too short waste an opportunity to include relevant keywords and context; too long, and search engines truncate them, sometimes rewriting them entirely. Google generally displays roughly the first 50-60 characters of a title and 120-160 characters of a description before truncating, though exact limits vary by pixel width, not character count.
This tool fetches a live page, extracts its title, description, canonical URL, robots directive, and Open Graph/Twitter Card tags, and previews how the page will actually look in a Google search result and when shared on social media.
Frequently asked questions
- Does the meta keywords tag still matter for SEO?
- No — Google has publicly confirmed it doesn't use the meta keywords tag for ranking and hasn't for years. It's included here for completeness, not because it affects rankings.
- Why is my title getting cut off in Google's results?
- Google truncates based on pixel width, not a fixed character count, so it varies — but keeping titles under roughly 60 characters is a safe general guideline.
- What's a canonical tag for?
- It tells search engines which URL is the "master" version when the same or similar content is reachable at multiple URLs, preventing duplicate-content issues from splitting ranking signals.
- My Open Graph image isn't showing when I share the link — why?
- Usually a missing or unreachable og:image tag, an image that's too small, or a social platform's cache serving an old preview — most platforms have a debugger tool to force a re-scrape.
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