Free Tool
SERP Snippet Preview
See exactly how your title and description will look in Google — on desktop and mobile — with pixel-accurate truncation, before you publish.
- Runs in your browser
- No sign-up required
- Updates as you type
Google preview — Desktop
Approximate — AI answer engines vary in how they surface and rephrase content.
We only send the title/description if you ask. No spam.
Pixels, not characters
A title that looks fine in an editor can truncate mid-word on the actual results page, and a description can be cut off before the sentence makes its point. Neither is visible in a text field.
Enter your title and description above and the preview updates as you type, measured against the width Google actually has.
The limit is a width, not a count
Google gives a title about 600px and a description about 920px. Character counts only approximate that, which is why two titles of the same length can behave completely differently.
- Pixel widths depend on the characters. Wide letters eat the budget faster than narrow ones, so a character count alone misleads.
- From a real run on this page: a title measured 484px of 600, and a 137-character description measured 834px of 920.
- Both were inside the limit, so neither got cut — which a character count could not have told you with any confidence.
The truncation you cannot see coming
A blogger writes a title that reads as complete in their CMS. On the results page it is cut — and what disappears is the year, which was the one signal the title was built around.
- Nothing in the editor warns you. The field accepts it, the character count looks reasonable, and the sentence reads fine.
- A title cut mid-word looks unpolished, and it can hide the exact keyword or benefit you were leading with.
- A description truncated before its key point loses the reason a searcher would click.
Why two titles of the same length differ
Because the budget is measured in pixels, the letters you choose decide how much of it you spend. This is the part a character counter cannot model.
- Wide characters — W, M, capitals, numerals — consume width quickly.
- Narrow characters — i, l, t, f — cost very little, so a longer title can still fit.
- Which is why the sensible order is: write it, preview it, then trim if the preview says so — not trim to a number first.
Nothing you type is sent anywhere
We checked: typing a title, URL and description fires no network requests at all. The preview is drawn in your browser.
- So an unpublished page, a client’s draft meta or an internal title can go in without thinking about it.
- It is a close approximation, not Google’s renderer, measured against a 600px title and 920px description budget.
- And Google can rewrite titles and descriptions entirely, which it often does — so treat the preview as the best case, not a guarantee.
Four numbers worth keeping
Why Parix.ai gives this away
Truncation is invisible until it is live, and by then the listing has already been seen. Rendering a preview costs us nothing because it happens in your browser — which is why there is no paywall and no sign-up.
Preview my listingWho uses it
Anyone publishing a page they want clicked: bloggers, SEO specialists, ecommerce teams, and anyone who has been surprised by how a title actually displayed on live search results.
Write it, then preview it
The Meta Description Generator drafts to the right length, and the Title Tag Length Checker measures the title on its own. This page is where you check the two together, because they are read together.
Being straight with you
This is an approximation of Google’s rendering, not Google’s renderer. It will catch the truncation that matters; it cannot promise Google will use your title at all.