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What is the Youtube Video Title Length Checker?

This tool is a character counter that counts words, letters and characters and gives you a score: how likely is your title to be truncated?
This way you can you can check in one click if your title exceeds the limits for home, suggested and search on mobile and desktop.

Since different part of YouTube (search, home screen, channel page) truncate titles at different lengths, there is no one-size-fits-all answer.
On top of that, there is no exact number of characters after which your title is always truncated.

The research on title lengths you can find if you scroll down on this page.

You can also use the tool to check the character length of your video description.

How does the Youtube Video Title Length Checker work?

Input a video title or text in the text area above
Click "COUNT"
Look at the score for your purpose (YouTube, blog post etc)

Length YouTube video title - YouTube homepage

I analyzed 15 titles of videos on the YouTube homepage desktop.
And I analyzed 12 titles of videos on the YouTube homepage mobile.
Since the homepage is different on every reload I can't do a 1 on 1 comparison between mobile and desktop.

Let's start with Homepage Desktop:

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube desktop*
Title 1	32	32
Title 2	41	41
Title 3	66	57
Title 4	52	52
Title 5	91	63
Title 6	53	53
Title 7	93	48
Title 8	92	57
Title 9	79	56
Title 10	54	54
Title 11	53	53
Title 12	65	65
Title 13	72	54
Title 14	63	56
Title 15	89	58

I noticed that the shown amount of characters vary based on the size of my browser screen.
So, available screen resolution is a big factor in truncation.
Take these numbers with a grain of salt, if you resize my browser window, I will have different results.

Let's look at Homepage Mobile Android:

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube mobile*
Title 1	46	46
Title 2	28	28
Title 3	47	47
Title 4	62	61
Title 5	87	67
Title 6	58	58
Title 7	44	44
Title 8	59	59
Title 9	55	55
Title 10	92	68
Title 11	59	59
Title 12	72	69

* without the dots ("..." not included)

Length YouTube video title - Search

I analyzed 13 titles of videos in YouTube search on desktop and mobile.

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube desktop*	Length title YouTube mobile*
Title 1	59	59	44
Title 2	61	61	50
Title 3	47	47	47
Title 4	95	95	47
Title 5	50	50	50
Title 6	53	53	53
Title 7	59	59	49
Title 8	45	45	45
Title 9	100	100	45
Title 10	84	84	41
Title 11	38	38	38
Title 12	41	41	41
Title 13	39	39	39

* without the dots ("..." not included)

You are pretty safe regarding search on desktop.
That is absolutely not the case on mobile 45-55 character max.

Length YouTube video title - YouTube suggested

I analyzed 12 titles of suggested on the desktop site.
And I analyzed 18 titles of suggested videos on the YouTube mobile app.
Since the suggested videos are different on every reload I can't do a 1 on 1 comparison between mobile and desktop.

Let's start with desktop:

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube desktop*
Title 1	57	57
Title 2	60	53
Title 3	56	56
Title 4	53	53
Title 5	55	55
Title 6	62	53
Title 7	79	60
Title 8	57	42
Title 9	78	49
Title 10	75	59
Title 11	93	60
Title 12	95	54

I noticed that the shown amount of characters DO NOT vary based on the size of my browser screen.

Let's look at Search Mobile on Android:

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube mobile*
Title 1	30	30
Title 2	65	65
Title 3	76	69
Title 4	100	65
Title 5	89	68
Title 6	27	27
Title 7	72	68
Title 8	49	49
Title 9	34	34
Title 10	56	56
Title 11	60	60
Title 12	65	65
Title 13	60	60
Title 14	61	61
Title 15	45	45
Title 16	56	56
Title 17	80	73
Title 18	54	54

* without the dots ("..." not included)

Length YouTube video title - Channel page

I analyzed 27 titles of YouTube videos on the channel homepage for the mobile app and desktop.
How many of these titles were truncated and what was their length?
The results are in the table below:

#	Length original title	Length title YouTube desktop*	Length title YouTube mobile*
Title 1	60	53	45
Title 2	44	44	44
Title 3	46	46	39
Title 4	45	45	45
Title 5	53	53	47
Title 6	55	46	46
Title 7	31	31	31
Title 8	61	48	40
Title 9	62	47	40
Title 10	74	45	37
Title 11	45	45	38
Title 12	47	47	39
Title 13	62	50	37
Title 14	61	49	44
Title 15	59	48	41
Title 16	54	46	39
Title 17	87	56	44
Title 18	71	54	38
Title 19	58	48	40
Title 20	39	39	39
Title 21	33	33	33
Title 22	42	42	42
Title 23	42	44	44
Title 24	47	47	47
Title 25	52	39	27
Title 26	59	29	28
Title 27	49	39	19

* without the dots ("..." not included)

I also noticed that the truncation on Android phones is far more "enthusiastic" than on iPhones.
In this test I used Android, because it's the worst case scenario.

Length website titles in Google

I analyzed 13 titles shown in the <title> tag of random websites.
How many of these titles were truncated and what was their length?
The results are in the table below:

#	Length original title	Length title Google desktop*	Length title Google mobile*
Title 1	62	54	62
Title 2	82	57	71
Title 3	80	58	66
Title 4	56	56	56
Title 5	72	52	72
Title 6	63	60	63
Title 7	52	52	52
Title 8	25	37	37
Title 9	58	47	58
Title 10	61	61	61
Title 11	58	58	58
Title 12	60	60	60
Title 13	63	63	63

* without the space and the dots (" ..." not included)

If you look closely, you'll see something weird: sometimes the original title is smaller than the "truncated" version. This is because Google adds sometimes the title of the site when the title is only a few characters long.

I can safely say that if your website title is within 55 characters, you are safe from truncation in Google.
Notice that some titles above 60 characters are truncated and others not.
This has probably to do with word length around the point of truncation, because Google does a word-aware chop of titles.
Truncation can also happen because of visual space, since Google uses a non-proportional font, some characters "eat" more visual space than others.