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Preview and score titles and meta descriptions across desktop and mobile Google results. Check pixel width, truncation, search intent, duplication and AI readability.
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Preview and score SEO titles and meta descriptions on desktop and mobile. Check pixel width, truncation and duplicates across up to 25 pages.
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Transparent scoring
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Metadata score
Length, rendering, query focus, differentiation and uniqueness.
Clarity, completeness, evidence, action and uniqueness.
Searcher phrasing, page-type fit and one focused theme.
Entity clarity, standalone meaning, scoped claims and consistency.
Length, rendering, query focus, differentiation and uniqueness.
52 characters.
530px in a Google-style title font.
Query begins at character 1.
Query begins at character 1.
No obvious keyword stacking detected.
Audience, number, format, geography, year, or price cue found.
Formatting is clean.
Expected Citera at the end.
0 indexable pages sampled.
Clarity, completeness, evidence, action and uniqueness.
141 characters.
Primary query is missing.
2 sentence endings detected.
No risky punctuation detected.
Describe the page using the searcher's language.
Specific scope, number, or mechanism detected.
No separate audience was supplied.
The closing phrase gives a clear next action.
50% meaningful-word overlap with the title.
25% contextual overlap.
0 indexable pages sampled.
Searcher phrasing, page-type fit and one focused theme.
Exact query found in the title.
Query repetition is controlled.
Language fits a tool page.
Checks for announcement language and unnatural punctuation.
Entity clarity, standalone meaning, scoped claims and consistency.
A brand or query entity is named.
The description has enough context to stand alone.
Claims are scoped or no numerical claim is made.
The copy states what the page provides.
H1 overlap is 75%.
Opening-copy overlap is 20%.
Run a URL audit to compare this metadata across a sitemap sample.
Citera evaluates what people see in Google and whether search engines and answer engines can understand the same promise.
How scoring works
The score is weighted across title quality, description quality, search intent and AI readability. Missing context is marked not assessed instead of becoming a hidden penalty.
Citera measures text using Google-style fonts, then checks desktop and mobile truncation risk.
The target query, page type, audience and brand placement are evaluated separately from length.
Entity clarity, scoped claims, H1 consistency and opening-copy alignment form the answer-engine layer.
URL mode checks a public sitemap and compares up to 25 indexable pages without analytics access.
Lead with the phrase a searcher would use, keep one keyword theme and reserve the final position for the brand on non-homepage titles.
Use the description for a concrete mechanism, scope, audience and intent-matched action instead of repeating the headline.
The metadata, H1 and opening paragraph should name the same entities and make a promise the visible page actually delivers.
FAQ
How the free tool measures, scores and samples metadata.
A SERP preview tool shows how a page title, URL and meta description may appear in a search result. Citera also measures pixel width, checks truncation risk and scores the copy against explicit SEO and AI-readability rules.
No. Google can rewrite titles and descriptions when another version appears more useful for a specific query. Clear, accurate metadata that matches the H1 and visible page content gives search engines a stronger source to use.
Characters have different widths. A title with many wide letters can truncate sooner than another title with the same character count, so this tool measures both length and rendered width.
URL mode looks for a public sitemap and samples up to 25 indexable pages. Exact title and description matches are reported, while unavailable or blocked sitemaps are marked as not assessed.
No. The free tool diagnoses rendering, search intent, duplication and AI-readability issues. Citera customers can connect their site and use the platform to plan and execute the fixes.
No. Metadata can improve clarity and click-through rate, but rankings depend on content quality, authority, technical accessibility, relevance and competition. The score is a transparent quality check, not a ranking promise.
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