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Meta Description Counter
Check whether a meta description fits within a 160-character budget commonly used as a safe target for search result snippets.
How to Use Meta Description Counter
- 1Paste your meta description
- 2Check the character count against the 160-character limit
Frequently Asked Questions
160 characters is a commonly used rule-of-thumb limit for keeping a meta description from being truncated in search results — actual truncation depends on pixel width, not a fixed character count, so treat this as a practical guideline rather than an exact cutoff.
The remaining count goes negative and the result is flagged with a warning, so you can see both that you're over and by how much.
Non-ASCII characters (accents, emoji, non-Latin scripts) take more than 1 byte each in UTF-8, which can matter if you're working with a system that limits by bytes rather than characters.
They share the same underlying length-checking code with different limits — this one applies the 160-character description limit, while [Meta Title Length Checker](/tool/meta-title-length-checker) uses 65 and [String Length Calculator](/tool/string-length-calculator) has no limit at all.
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