---
title: "Meta tag generator — free, runs in your browser"
description: "Generate title, description, canonical, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags. Free, no sign-up, and nothing you enter leaves your browser."
url: https://atoneplace.net/tools/meta-tag-generator/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Meta tag generator

Generate title, description, canonical, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags.

## How it works

Fill in the fields and this produces the head tags: title, meta description, canonical, Open Graph and Twitter Card, plus viewport and charset.

The length counters are the useful part. Google truncates titles at roughly 580 pixels — about 55 to 60 characters in practice, though it depends on the characters, since capital letters and wide letters use more room. Descriptions get around 155 to 160. Neither is a hard limit and being over one is not a penalty; it just means the tail gets cut, so the important words belong at the front.

Meta descriptions are not a ranking factor and have not been for many years. They influence click-through rate, which is worth optimising for its own sake, but no amount of keyword stuffing in one affects position. Google also rewrites descriptions for a large share of results when it judges the page has a better-matching snippet.

The meta keywords tag is dead. Google stopped using it in 2009 and announced as much publicly. It is not included here.

> This tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you enter is sent to a server, logged or stored, and the page keeps working with the network disconnected.

## Common questions

### How long should a meta description be?

Around 155–160 characters before truncation, though the real limit is pixel width. Put the important words first, since the tail is what gets cut.

### Do meta keywords still matter?

No. Google confirmed in 2009 that it ignores the keywords tag, and no major engine uses it.

### Does the meta description affect rankings?

No, only click-through rate. Google frequently rewrites it anyway when it finds a passage on the page that better matches the query.

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