Meta Tag Checker
Check a page’s title, meta description, canonical, robots tags, language and hreflang in one pass.
No sign-up. We read the live page for you. Nothing is stored.
What you get
- Title and description, with their lengths
- Whether the page can be indexed at all
- The canonical, and where it points
- hreflang, lang and Open Graph tags
- The title and meta description, with their lengths against the range where results usually show them in full.
- Whether the page is indexable: its HTTP status, the robots meta tag, the googlebot meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag response header.
- The canonical tag: missing, duplicated, self-referencing, or pointing at a different URL.
- The lang attribute, the mobile viewport, hreflang alternates with their self-reference, Open Graph tags and any JSON-LD types on the page.
How to use the Meta Tag Checker
Enter the page URL
We follow any redirects and read the live page, including its response headers, which is where a hidden noindex often lives.
Fix the rows marked Fix
Those stop the page being indexed or rendering properly. Rows marked Check are worth a look but are not always wrong.
Check the raw tags
The table at the bottom shows each tag exactly as the page sends it, so you can compare it with what your CMS was meant to output.
Why a two-minute tag check catches expensive mistakes
One stray noindex removes a page.
A robots meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header left over from staging keeps a page out of search entirely, and nothing on the page itself shows it.
A wrong canonical hands your ranking away.
A canonical pointing at another URL asks Google to index that page instead. On a page you want to rank, that is a request you did not mean to make.
The snippet is written from these tags.
The title and description are what a searcher reads before choosing. Missing or overlong, Google writes its own.
hreflang only works when it is complete.
Alternate-language tags need a self-reference on every page in the set. Miss one and Google may ignore the whole set.
What to do with the result
Most tag problems are not decisions anyone made: a staging noindex that shipped, a canonical a plugin set to the homepage, a description field left empty. They are cheap to fix and expensive to miss, and they recur every time a template changes. Site Audit checks titles, descriptions, canonicals, indexability conflicts and share tags on every page it crawls, so a template change that breaks them shows up the week it ships.
Site AuditFrequently asked questions
The title tag, because it becomes the result headline and is a ranking signal. The meta description, because it often becomes the snippet. The robots meta tag and canonical, because they decide whether and which URL gets indexed. Meta keywords has been ignored by Google for over a decade.
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