Meta Tags Checker: See Every Meta Tag on a Page

How to use it

Paste a URL. The page you want to inspect. Redirects are followed.
Check tags. We read the <head> and list every meta tag and the link tags search engines care about.
Scan the table. Lengths are shown for the title and description. Filter by name to find one tag fast.

Why look at raw meta tags

CMS plugins, theme settings and frameworks all write meta tags, and they do not always agree. A page can end up with two descriptions, a leftover noindex from staging, or Open Graph tags pointing at the wrong image. Viewing the source works, but on a modern page the head is hundreds of lines. This tool pulls out just the tags.

The tags that matter most

title. Not a meta tag strictly, but the most important element in the head. Keep it under about 60 characters.
description. The snippet candidate. 120–160 characters.
robots. index, follow is the default and does not need stating. noindex keeps a page out of search; nofollow stops links passing value.
viewport. width=device-width, initial-scale=1 is required for a mobile-friendly page.
*og: and twitter:.* Link previews on social apps and chat. Check them in the Open Graph checker with a live preview.
charset. Should be utf-8 and near the top of the head.

Link tags in the head

The table also lists <link> elements that affect indexing and branding: canonical, alternate (including hreflang and RSS feeds), icon and apple-touch-icon, manifest, and prev/next. Use the canonical checker or hreflang checker to validate those in detail.

Tags you can skip

meta keywords has been ignored by Google for over a decade. revisit-after, rating and distribution do nothing for search. They are harmless, but there is no reason to add them. If you are writing tags from scratch, the meta tag generator produces a clean set.

What you get

Every name, property, http-equiv and charset meta tag
Canonical, alternate, icon and manifest links
Character counts for title and description
Filter the table by tag name or value

Questions

How do I check a website's meta tags?

Paste the page URL above. The tool fetches the HTML and lists every meta tag it finds, with the title and description lengths shown.

Do meta keywords still matter?

No. Google has ignored the meta keywords tag since 2009 and Bing treats it as a possible spam signal. You can leave it out.

Why does my page have two descriptions?

Usually a theme and an SEO plugin both output one. Search engines pick one, not necessarily yours. Turn off the duplicate in the theme or plugin settings.

Does the tool show tags added by JavaScript?

No. It reads the HTML the server sends. Social platforms and many crawlers do the same, so tags that only exist after JavaScript runs are often missed by them too.