Meta Tags Analyzer
Enter a URL to check every tag in the page head that affects search results and link previews.
What the analyzer checks
The tool downloads the HTML of the page once, the same way a crawler would, and reads the tags in it. Nothing is rendered, so you see what bots see before any JavaScript runs.
Title and meta description
The title is the strongest on-page signal you control and it is the clickable headline in results. We count characters and warn outside the 30 to 60 range. The description does not affect ranking, but it is your pitch in the results page. We warn outside 70 to 160 characters. To see how both will be cut on Google, paste them into the SERP snippet preview.
Robots and canonical
A noindex value in the robots meta tag or in the X-Robots-Tag header keeps the page out of Google. A canonical tag that names another URL asks Google to index that one instead. Both are reported as problems or warnings because they are the two most common reasons a good page never shows up. The indexability checker adds robots.txt and status code to the same picture.
Viewport, charset and language
Google indexes the mobile version of your pages, so a missing viewport tag is a real problem and not a cosmetic one. The charset declaration prevents broken characters, and the lang attribute helps screen readers and translation tools.
Open Graph and Twitter card tags
These control the card that appears when someone shares your link in a chat app or on a social network. The core set is og:title, og:description, og:image and og:url, plus twitter:card. Check the visual result with the Open Graph preview.
Favicon and H1
Google shows your favicon next to mobile results. The H1 count is included because a missing or repeated H1 usually points to a template problem. The heading structure checker shows the full outline.
How to fix what you find
- Fix problems first: noindex, missing title, missing viewport.
- Write a unique title and description for every page that should get search traffic. Duplicates across a site are a bigger issue than a title that is a few characters long.
- Need the markup? The meta tag generator writes it for you.
Once the tags are right, Google still has to recrawl the page to see them. TurboIndex submits changed pages from your sitemap and tracks when they are indexed.
Questions and answers
How long should a title tag be?
There is no official limit. Google cuts titles by pixel width, which works out to roughly 60 characters for most text. We flag titles under 30 characters as short and titles over 60 as likely to be cut. A longer title is not penalised, the end is just not shown.
Does Google always use my meta description?
No. Google uses it when it matches the search query well and often builds its own snippet from page text when it does not. A good description still helps, because it is the snippet shown for your main queries and for most link previews that have no og:description.
Do meta keywords still matter?
No. Google has said for many years that it ignores the keywords meta tag, so this tool does not check it.
Why does the tool see different tags than my browser?
The tool reads the HTML your server sends, without running JavaScript. If your tags are injected by client-side code they will be missing here. Google can render JavaScript, but most link preview bots cannot, so tags in the initial HTML are the safer choice.
Is a missing canonical tag a problem?
Not always. Google picks a canonical URL by itself when none is declared. The tag becomes useful when the same page is reachable with tracking parameters, with and without a trailing slash, or on several hostnames.