Bulk meta description checker: which sites have a meta description, and how long is it?
In short: Paste a list of domains and read each home page's meta description with its character count, flagged when missing, short or long, as a CSV. Limit: Only the home page's HTML is read.
A bulk meta description checker reads the meta description tag in each site's home page. Paste up to 100 domains, or 500 after a free Google sign-in; each row shows the text and its length in characters and says Set, Short, Long, empty or No meta description. Length bands are common guidance, not a rule. Download the CSV.
Price: this tool is free. Checking a whole email list is from $9/mo, and the first 100 checks are free with Google, no card. Check your list free nowSee pricing
Sample result
acme.example has a 120-character description; initech.example has none.
- Site
- acme.example
- Length
- 120 characters
- Band
- 70 to 160
What this means for you
Length bands are common guidance; search engines may show a different snippet.
- Reads the meta description
- Counts characters
- Flags missing, short and long
- Home page only
- Set
- Missing
- CSV
By SimpleVerifier Team · Last updated
Cleaning a list of company websites before outreach?
- Paste the domains here: 100 a run, or 500 after a free Google sign-in. Filter to the flagged rows and download the CSV.
- Upload or paste it at /verify. Every address gets a live mailbox check, and the first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.
How do I check meta descriptions on many websites?
- Paste up to 100 domains, or 500 after a free Google sign-in, one per line; emails and URLs work too. You can also upload a CSV.
- Press Check meta descriptions. Each domain's home page is requested once, five at a time.
- Read each row: the description text, its length and whether it is missing, short or long.
- Filter to the flagged rows and download the CSV.
Example
- You enter
- Three sites:
acme.example(a 120-character description),globex.example(40 characters) andinitech.example(no description tag). - You get
- acme.example: Set (120 characters). globex.example: Short (40 characters). initech.example: No meta description. Download the CSV.
- Limits
- Up to 100 a run without an account and 500 when signed in with Google, counted over a minute. 10 sites a request; one request per site from our server, no cookies, nothing stored.
What is a meta description?
A meta description is a meta name="description" tag in a page's head that summarises the page. Search engines can use it as the snippet under a result but often write their own; Google explains this in its snippet guidance.
A missing or empty tag means the snippet is written from the page text.
What do the length bands mean?
Under 70 characters is flagged Short and over 160 is flagged Long, because long text is often cut off in results. The bands are common guidance, not a search engine rule.
Only the home page is read, and a tag added by JavaScript isn't seen. For a plain live-or-down read of every site, use the bulk website status checker.
What do you do with the flagged rows?
Write or trim the description at the source, or keep the rows as prospects for SEO work. Read page titles with the bulk website title checker.
Before you email contacts at these companies, verify the addresses.
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- SEO consultants
- Build a prospect list of sites with no description.
- Web agencies
- Audit client sites after a redesign.
- Content teams
- Check descriptions across many domains.
- Site owners
- Review every domain you run in one pass.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- Only the home page's HTML is read.
- A tag added by JavaScript isn't seen.
- Length bands are guidance, not a search engine rule.
- Up to 100 domains a run without an account, 500 signed in.
- Public HTTP only: each row is a signal read from the site, not a certainty.
Common questions
- How do I check a site's meta description?
- Paste the domain into a bulk meta description checker like this one. It reads the description tag from each home page.
- Is this meta description checker free?
- Yes. 100 domains a run without an account, 500 after a free Google sign-in, with no card, and a CSV download.
- What is the right length?
- There is no fixed rule. Between 70 and 160 characters is common guidance, and this tool uses it for its bands.
- Does Google always show the meta description?
- No. Search engines often write their own snippet from the page.
- Why does a site show No meta description?
- It may have none, or add it with JavaScript, which isn't run here.
- Does it check my contacts' email addresses?
- No. Verify them separately at /verify.
Sources
A tidy list can still be full of dead addresses.
Extracting, deduplicating and syntax checks all work on the text of an address. None of them can tell whether the mailbox exists. Only the server that hosts it can answer that, through an SMTP check, and that is what the paid product does.
- Upload the cleaned file as it is: CSVs up to 100,000 rows
- A real SMTP mailbox check on every row, with catch-all detection
- Small list? Starter at $9/mo covers 2,500 emails a month, cancel anytime
Plans from $9 a month, cancel anytime, no contract. Sign in with Google and your first 100 email checks are free, no card. The free tools stay free either way.