Meta Tag Checker
A meta tag checker reads a page’s HTML head and reports on the tags search engines and social sites use: title, meta description, canonical URL, robots directives, viewport, language and Open Graph tags.
Check your meta tags
How to check a page
- Open the page in your browser and view its source (Ctrl+U on Windows, Option+Cmd+U on Mac).
- Copy all of the source and paste it into the box.
- Select Check Meta Tags to see passes, warnings and issues, then copy the report if you want to share it.
The checker works on pasted HTML because browsers don’t let one website download another site’s code directly. Pasting also lets you check pages that aren’t public yet.
What the results mean
- Title and description: present, unique and of a practical length.
- Canonical: tells search engines which URL is the preferred version.
- Robots: a
noindexhere keeps the page out of search results. - Viewport and language: help mobile display and accessibility.
- Open Graph: controls the title, description and image used when the page is shared.
The health score summarises these checks. It is not a ranking prediction.
Fixing what the checker finds
- Missing or duplicate titles and descriptions: set them per page in your SEO plugin, or draft them with the meta tag generator.
- noindex on a page that should rank: check the page’s SEO plugin settings and WordPress’s “Discourage search engines” option (Settings → Reading).
- Canonical pointing to the wrong URL: see the canonical tag generator page for common causes.
- No Open Graph image: set a featured or social image so shared links show a picture.
Frequently asked questions
Not at the moment. Paste the page source instead; that also works for pages behind a login or on staging sites.
No. The HTML is parsed in your browser and is not uploaded to our server.
View Source shows the HTML sent by the server. Some sites add tags later with JavaScript, which the inspector shows but View Source does not.