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Meta Tag and Canonical Check

The page is actually fetched and everything Google and social networks read from its head is extracted and assessed. If your page link shows up in WhatsApp with no image, the answer is here.

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See a page's title, description, canonical, H1, and sharing tags in one place.

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This tool runs on our own server and we buy no data for it, so it is free and stays free. It only carries a daily cap so a bot cannot swallow the whole capacity. The daily cap is counted per visitor. If you need more, a free account raises your limit.

The short answer

Meta tags are the part of a page a visitor never sees but Google, Telegram and WhatsApp read: the title, the description, the canonical, the indexing directive and the sharing image. If the title you see in Google results differs from what you expected, the difference is almost always here.

The most dangerous tag on this list is the canonical, because it works silently. A canonical pointing at another page tells Google to ignore this version, and Google does, with no error and no notification. The most common form is the whole site carrying the home page canonical, usually after a wrong setting in an SEO plugin or a move from a staging environment.

The second thing worth reading is the H1 count. A page should have one H1 that states its subject. Zero means Google has to guess, and more than one usually means the theme has coded the logo or the site name as an H1. Neither is a disaster, but both signal that the page structure has not been in the hands of anyone thinking about it.

Sharing tags are the third part that is almost always forgotten and has the most immediate effect. A link arriving in WhatsApp or Telegram with no image and no description gets a far lower click rate than the same link with a proper card. For Iranian sites, where a large share of traffic comes from exactly those two networks, this is a small optimisation with a high return.

Where the data comes from

Our server fetches the raw HTML and reads the tags without executing JavaScript. That is a real limitation: if your meta tags are built by JavaScript (some React and Next sites), they will look empty here. Then again, Google sees that same raw HTML on first pass, so an empty result here is itself a warning, not merely a tool error.

When it helps

Before publishing an important page, or when a page shows the wrong title in Google. Also to understand why the page's link appears without an image in WhatsApp or Telegram.

Where it does not help

The raw HTML is read and no JavaScript is executed. If your meta tags are built client side, as on some React and Next sites, they appear empty here. But do not dismiss that as a tool error: Google also sees this same raw HTML for the initial index and defers JavaScript rendering to a separate, slower queue, so an empty result here is a real warning in itself. The second limitation is that this tool says what you declared, not what Google displays. Google routinely rewrites titles and descriptions per query, so a correct title here does not guarantee the same title appears in results.

One thing we learned using it

When a link arrives in WhatsApp with no image and the og:image tag is correct, the problem is usually the image itself rather than the tag. An image behind a login, on a relative URL, or unreachable from an outside network is not fetched and the card stays empty. Open the URL inside og:image in a browser without being signed in to the site; if you cannot see it yourself, WhatsApp cannot either.

What it costs

This tool runs on our own server and we buy no data for it, so it is free and stays free. It only carries a daily cap so a bot cannot swallow the whole capacity.

The daily cap is counted per visitor. If you need more, a free account raises your limit.

Questions about this tool

Why does Google show a different title from mine?

Google rewrites titles per query, usually when yours is too long, repeats the keyword, or puts the brand name in front for no reason. A shorter, more descriptive title has a better chance of surviving.

Should the canonical point at the page itself?

Normally yes. Self-reference is the correct state for any page that is its own original. Pointing elsewhere is only right when you genuinely are a duplicate of another page, for example a page with a filter parameter.

Does the meta description affect rankings?

Not directly. Its effect is on click-through rate, which is not a small thing: two results in the same position with two different descriptions get different clicks. Write it for a person, not for an algorithm.