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Meta Tag Analyzer

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Fetches any URL, parses the <head>, and runs it through a checklist of SEO and social-sharing best practices. Flags missing title, description over 160 characters, og:image under 200 px, noindex still on production, robots conflicts, missing canonical, missing viewport, duplicate Open Graph tags, and more, each rule labeled as critical, warning or suggestion so you can fix the important things first.

How the analyzer runs

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    Enter URL

    Full URL with protocol. Follows one redirect hop.

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    Page is fetched and parsed

    Server-side fetcher reads the raw HTML.

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    Rules run against the tags

    Checklist covers SEO basics, Open Graph, Twitter Card, robots, icons, viewport.

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    Report grouped by severity

    Critical issues at the top, suggestions at the bottom.

Audit checklist

Critical, fix before next deploy

  • <title> missing.
  • <meta name="description"> missing.
  • <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> on a page you want to rank.
  • og:image missing on a public-facing page.
  • Canonical tag pointing to a different domain (common after migrations).
  • Conflicting Open Graph duplicates (two og:title tags).
  • Mixed protocol canonical (http → https or vice versa).

Warning, SEO impact

  • Title over 60 characters.
  • Description over 160 characters or under 70.
  • og:image under 200×200 px.
  • Missing twitter:card.
  • No viewport meta (mobile display breaks).
  • Multiple H1s on the page.

Suggestion, nice to have

  • twitter:site handle missing.
  • No favicon.
  • No Apple touch icon for iOS bookmarks.
  • No JSON-LD for pages that clearly match a schema type (Article, Product, Recipe).
  • No theme-color for PWA-style mobile address bar theming.

The most common fails we see

  • noindex left on prod. A staging robots tag survives the push. The page disappears from Google the next crawl cycle.
  • og:image absolute URL missing the scheme. //cdn.example.com/img.jpg works for browsers but not always for Facebook. Use https://cdn.example.com/img.jpg.
  • Canonical pointing to /en-US when the page is /en-GB. Usually a template bug.
  • Description rewritten for every variant page but set to the same string. Site-wide duplicate.
  • Title starts with the brand. Brand | What the page is about is worse for click-through than What the page is about | Brand.

Debugging when Google shows something different

Even a clean audit doesn’t guarantee Google will display your meta exactly as written:

  • Google rewrites titles ~60% of the time based on the query.
  • Descriptions get replaced by synthesized snippets for query relevance.
  • Meta tags still matter, they’re the starting point Google works from.

Post-deploy recheck

After changing meta tags, re-fetch in Facebook Sharing Debugger and Twitter Card Validator to clear their cached versions, then re-run the audit. Changes can take a few hours to surface in Google search; the Search Console URL Inspection tool shows the current cached version.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. It only reads the publicly-available HTML at the URL you enter. No write access, no modifications, no logging into your account.

No. The fetcher uses a generic crawler user-agent with no session cookies. Pages that require authentication return a login form, which is what the analyzer sees.

The analyzer reads the server-response HTML. SPAs without SSR will not expose their meta tags in this view, which is exactly how search crawlers see the page without JavaScript execution.

Almost certainly a CMS or template bug, the page contains two <title> elements. Browsers show only the first; Google may use either. Remove the duplicate.

Operationally, the URL passes through a proxy to fetch the page. The URL itself is not stored or associated with your session beyond the request lifetime.

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