title.too-long
Title is longer than the configured maximum (default 60 characters) and will be truncated in search results.
What to change
Shorten the title to roughly 60 characters or fewer, keeping the most important words first.
The documentation on developers.google.comA finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.
When it runs
Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.
The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.
Run it, or skip it
Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:
npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule title.too-longOr from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"title.too-long"
]
}To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable title.too-long on the command, or disableRules: ["title.too-long"] to a tool.
More in Titles
All 5 rules- Error
title.missingThe page has no <title> element or it is empty. - Warning
title.multipleMore than one <title> element is present. - Info
title.too-shortTitle is shorter than the configured minimum (default 30 characters). - Warning
title.genericTitle is a framework default or placeholder such as "React App", "Create Next App", "Home" or "Untitled".