Character Counter
Count characters with and without spaces and check your text against limits for posts, SMS and SEO tags.
About the Character Counter
Paste or type your text to count characters (with and without spaces), words and lines as you type.
Characters are counted as you see them, so an emoji or accented letter counts once. Some platforms count differently: X counts most emoji as two characters and links as 23, and an SMS with any non-GSM character (like an emoji) drops from 160 to 70 characters per message.
The formula
Characters = every letter, digit, space and symbol
Worked example
“Write your post or meta description here to check it fits.”
- 58 characters
- 48 without spaces, 11 words
Questions people ask
How long should a meta description be?
Around 150–160 characters; search engines cut longer ones on screen.
Does a space count as a character?
Yes; see the separate figure without spaces.