Blog Title Analyzer

What a title score can and cannot tell you

A headline analyser measures structure: how long the title is, whether it uses a recognised format, whether the words carry any weight, whether it will fit in a search result. Those things are worth measuring because they are easy to get wrong and easy to fix.

What no analyser can measure is whether the promise is the right one for your audience, or whether a competitor already makes the same promise better. That is the part that decides whether anyone clicks. This tool says so on the page rather than pretending otherwise, and the score is there to catch weak structure, not to bless an idea.

Why the score is fully itemised

Most headline tools hand you a number between 0 and 100 and a vague category breakdown. If the number is 62, you are left guessing which of the eleven things it measured cost you the points.

Here every check is listed by name with the points it earned out of the points available, a sentence explaining the result, and a specific suggestion when it falls short. If your title loses points on length, you are told how many characters to cut. If it has no power words, you are given three that would fit. Nothing is hidden.

Scored for the job the title is doing

This is the most important setting on the page. Headline analysers are almost universally calibrated for blog posts, then applied to everything, which produces confidently wrong advice. A direct-response sales headline is supposed to be long and emphatic; judged by blog-post rules it looks bloated and scores badly, even when it converts well.

Tell this tool what the title is for and the targets move with it:

• Blog post – 50 to 70 characters, a recognisable format, emotional wording rewarded.
• SEO article – shorter, keyword position weighted heavily, and the search-result width check switched on.
• News or announcement – clarity and sentiment prioritised, power words neither required nor penalised.
• Sales or landing page – length allowance widened considerably, power and emotional words expected.

Compare ten titles at once

Writing one headline and scoring it is the least useful way to use a tool like this. Writing eight and seeing them ranked against each other is where the value is, and it is usually the feature locked behind an account elsewhere.

Put one title per line and they are scored and ordered, best first, with character count, word count and detected format alongside. Select any row to see its full report. Scores update as you type, so you can edit a weak option and watch it climb the table.

The Google preview is measured, not estimated

Google truncates titles on pixel width, not character count. A title full of wide letters such as W and M runs out of room sooner than one made of i and l, which is why character-count advice is only ever approximate. The width here is measured in the same font Google uses, and the preview shows exactly where the cut falls, so you can see the truncation before it happens rather than after.

Practical guidance for better titles

• Lead with the subject. Both readers and search engines weight the opening words most heavily. If your keyword can sit at the front without the sentence sounding forced, put it there.
• Use a number or a bracketed aside. Both reliably lift click-through because they promise something finite: “7 Ways”, “(With Examples)”, “[2026 Update]”.
• Pick a lean. Clearly positive and clearly negative titles both outperform neutral ones. Decide whether you are promising a gain or warning about a loss.
• One strong word beats three weak ones. A single well-chosen power or emotional word changes the temperature of a headline; three of them make it sound like an advert.
• Read it out loud. If you would not say it to a colleague, do not publish it. No score can catch that, and it matters more than the score.