Character Counter: Letters, Spaces and Platform Limits
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Free character counter

Count the characters, and check every limit that matters.

Paste a title, a description or a post. See the count and whether it fits where it is going.

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Character Counter

Up to 20,000 words.

Free, no account. Tell us where the result should go, type the code from the email, and the check runs.

What it checks

Characters

With spaces, without spaces, letters, digits, punctuation, lines and bytes.

And

Limits

Title tag, meta description, social posts and SMS, each marked as fitting or not.

Also

Words

Word and sentence counts alongside, so the two never disagree.

How to read the result

What to do with it

  • A title tag shows about 60 characters before it is cut.
  • A meta description shows about 155 on desktop and less on phones.
  • Bytes matter for SMS and some form fields, so they are listed too.
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Paste anything. Words, characters, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, speaking time, and the words you use most.

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A page address or a few words about the page. Five descriptions under 155 characters, with the search term you name.

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Questions

About the character counter

Do spaces count as characters?

Both counts are shown. Most platform limits count spaces; search snippets are cut by pixel width, so the character count is a guide.

Why is the byte count higher than the character count?

Accented letters, symbols and emoji take more than one byte in UTF-8, which is what web forms and messages use.

How long should a title tag be?

Between 50 and 60 characters keeps it whole in most results. Put the term people search for near the start.