Duplicate Title & Description Checker
Duplicate titles and descriptions across a template are the most common on-page problem on real sites, and they are invisible page by page — you only see them by comparing pages. This check compares a sample of pages and reports repeats, omissions and lengths that will be truncated in results.
Results open in the site's full report, which you can share, compare and re-run.
What it checks
- Titles repeated across more than one checked page
- Meta descriptions repeated across more than one checked page
- Missing or empty titles and meta descriptions
- Titles under 15 or over 65 characters, and descriptions under 50 or over 160
Frequently asked questions
- Is duplicate content penalized?
- There is no duplicate content penalty. What happens is dilution: engines pick one URL to index and your signals spread across the variants instead of consolidating on one.
- Do meta descriptions affect ranking?
- No. They affect click-through, because they usually become the snippet. Engines rewrite them when they judge the page content a better match for the query.
- What length should a title be?
- Long enough to be descriptive, short enough not to be cut off — roughly 15 to 65 characters. The real limit is pixel width, so the character count is a guide rather than a rule.
- Why does the check only look at some pages?
- It compares up to twelve same-origin HTML pages found from the sitemap and homepage links. A template-wide duplicate shows up immediately in that sample; a rare one-off may not.
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