Audit on-page SEO tags for any URL.
Paste a URL and we'll show its title, meta description, H1, and canonical tag — with length checks against current best practices.
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curl "https://api.rankparse.com/v1/page-meta?url=https://example.com" \
-H "X-API-Key: rp_your_key"About this tool
On-page meta tags still matter. The title and meta description are what Google shows in the search snippet (when it doesn't rewrite them). The H1 reinforces topical relevance. The canonical tag tells search engines which URL is the authoritative version of the page when duplicates exist. Get any of these wrong — too long, too short, missing, or pointing somewhere unexpected — and you leave clicks on the table.
This tool reads the page metadata from our Common Crawl index, so it shows what Google's crawler most recently saw — not necessarily what your CMS thinks it's serving. That distinction matters: client-side rendering bugs and stale CDN caches often mean the indexed tags differ from the live HTML.
How it works
Submit any URL. We look it up in our latest Common Crawl release (3 billion+ pages) and return the four highest-leverage on-page tags, with character-count warnings flagging anything that's too short, too long, or missing.
Length recommendations: titles 30–60 characters, meta descriptions 70–160 characters. These are pixel-budget approximations — Google truncates at ~580px for titles and ~990px for descriptions on desktop — so a 55-char title with wide letters can still get cut off. Always preview live where it matters.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does the indexed HTML differ from my live page?
- Common Crawl crawls quarterly and respects robots.txt. If your page was changed recently, used client-side rendering without SSR, or returned different HTML to bots, you'll see the version Google last indexed — which is often what we serve too. For live HTML, run the page through Google Search Console's URL Inspection.
- Does this check OpenGraph and Twitter Card tags?
- Not yet — only title, description, H1, and canonical are extracted in the current release. Open Graph and Twitter Card support is on the roadmap.
- Why is my page showing as 'not in the index'?
- Common Crawl doesn't index every URL on the web — only what its crawler reached during the quarterly crawl. Pages behind login walls, blocked by robots.txt, or with no internal/external links pointing to them often aren't indexed.
- What about title pixel widths vs character counts?
- Character count is a rough proxy. Google truncates by pixel width (~580px desktop / ~700px mobile), so 'WWWWWWWW…' takes more space than 'iiiiiiii…'. We use char count as a fast first-pass; for production, use Google's own snippet preview.