Live character count with Twitter, meta description, Instagram, LinkedIn, and SMS limits.
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Updates instantly with separate counts for letters, digits, punctuation, lines, and bytes.
See live progress bars for Twitter, meta tags, Instagram, LinkedIn, SMS — color flips red at limit.
Critical for SMS (160-byte limit) and database VARCHAR(N) sizing.
Spot overuse of exclamation marks or quotes that can hurt readability.
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Make sure your title tag is under 60 chars and meta description under 160 — Google truncates beyond that.
Almost every platform truncates content at a fixed character or pixel limit. Run over and your message gets cut mid-sentence — losing the call-to-action, the brand name, or the punchline.
For SEO, the two limits that matter most are title tags (50-60 chars) and meta descriptions (140-160 chars). Going over means Google cuts your text in search results — and the part it cuts is usually your brand name. See exactly how it'll look with our SERP Preview Tool.
Once your content is published with the right character counts, make sure Google actually indexes it with IndexFlow's Index Checker.
Google displays approximately 160 characters of a meta description on desktop and slightly less on mobile (~120). Anything beyond gets truncated with '…'. The tool flags red when you cross the limit.
Standard ASCII characters (a-z, 0-9, punctuation) take 1 byte. Accented characters, emoji, and non-Latin scripts can take 2-4 bytes in UTF-8. SMS providers charge per byte, not per character — that's why a single emoji can split your SMS into multiple parts.
Twitter counts URLs as 23 characters regardless of actual length, and emoji as 2 characters. Our raw count shows the actual character total — useful for content where Twitter's special handling doesn't apply.
No. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Your text never leaves your device — safe for confidential drafts.
Aim for 50-60 characters. Google truncates at roughly 580 pixels (which works out to 50-60 chars on average), and shorter titles often have better click-through rates.