Counting words and characters against the limits that matter
Useful mainly because so many things have hard character limits. Here are the ones worth memorising.
A word counter sounds too simple to need a page, until you notice how many hard limits you write against: meta titles, meta descriptions, social posts, form fields, SMS. Going over does not produce a warning, it produces silent truncation, usually mid-word and usually somewhere visible.
The limits worth knowing: meta titles are truncated in search results around 60 characters, meta descriptions around 155 to 160, and an SMS segment is 160. These are the numbers behind most "why does my listing look cut off" questions. The counter is in the ToolHub text section.
Word & Character Counter: the facts that matter
| Counts | Words, characters with and without spaces, sentences, paragraphs |
| Meta title limit | Around 60 characters |
| Meta description limit | Around 155 to 160 characters |
| SMS segment | 160 characters |
| Privacy | Runs in the browser; text is not uploaded |
How to do it, step by step
- 1Open the word counter in ToolHub.
- 2Paste your text. Counts update as you type.
- 3Check characters, not just words, if you are writing against a limit. Limits are almost always in characters.
- 4For meta text, aim slightly under the limit rather than exactly at it.
- 5Watch the character count including spaces, since that is what most limits measure.
Three things worth knowing
- Write the meta description to the limit deliberately rather than letting it be truncated.
- Aim a few characters under any limit. Different platforms measure slightly differently.
- Getting these limits right across a whole site is tedious by hand. CodeAiMan's technical SEO checklist covers what else to audit, and siteIQ flags truncated titles automatically.
Common problems, solved
Where to run it
This tool is part of the ToolHub tool library, a library of over 1,000 browser-based tools covering PDF, image, video, audio, text and developer work. Everything runs in the browser and none of it needs an account.
ToolHub is built by codaiman.com, an AI-first software company in Ahmedabad. Related to this page: SEO and digital marketing technical seo, content strategy, analytics and performance optimisation.
Word & Character Counter, in the browser: no install, no sign-up, no upload queue. Part of the ToolHub library from CodeAiMan.
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