How to title & meta length checker without breaking your data

A 72-character title looks fine in a CMS field and is cut off at "…" in search results. The phrase that gets dropped is usually the one with the keyword.

You see this most often in product pages, category pages, landing page copy. Counting characters tells you the length, not the width — W and i occupy very different space.

Doing it in four steps

1. Paste the title
2. Paste the description
3. Read character and pixel estimates
4. Trim until both are inside the limit

The whole thing runs locally in the browser tab: no upload, no account, no queue. When the page says "removed 37 lines", that number comes from the file you just pasted, not from a sample.

Character counts alone mislead: a short title built from W and M can be wider on screen than a longer one built from i and l.

For the full picture — imports, feeds, variants, identifiers — see the pillar guide: Shopify product data management.

Try it on your own file

Open Title & Meta Length Checker and paste a sample. It is free, it does not store anything, and you do not need an account. If the file is sensitive, save the page locally and run it offline.

Questions people ask

What limits does it use?

About 60 characters / 580px for titles and 160 characters / 920px for descriptions.

Is the pixel estimate exact?

No — it is an estimate for a common sans-serif at 20px/14px. Treat it as a warning, not a guarantee.