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Social preview
Paste a URL to see how it renders on eight platforms at once — and which of your tags produced every line of every card.
No signup, no card. Paste a URL and the checker reports this along with everything else, in about a second.
The same page looks different on every platform, because every platform reads a different subset of your tags and lays them out its own way. A preview that is correct on Facebook can be wrong on X and empty on Google, from one set of tags.
What each platform reads
This is the part worth knowing. Most preview tools show you a picture; the useful information is which tag the picture came from.
| Platform | Reads | Shape |
|---|---|---|
Google | <title> and meta description. Never Open Graph. | Text result with a favicon and the domain. |
X | twitter:* first, then Open Graph. | Small or full-width card, decided by twitter:card. |
Facebook | Open Graph only. Ignores twitter:*. | Image above the domain, title and description. |
LinkedIn | Open Graph. | Image above the title and domain; no description on most layouts. |
Discord | Open Graph. | Coloured rail, site name, title, description, then the image. |
WhatsApp | Open Graph. | Small thumbnail — an image with fine detail becomes unreadable. |
Slack | Open Graph plus og:site_name. | Indented behind a coloured rail. |
Telegram | Open Graph. | Image above the site name, title and description. |
Google is not a social preview
It is on this list because people expect it, and because the difference is
worth stating plainly: Google does not read Open Graph. A search
result is built from your <title> and meta description.
This matters when the two are written differently on purpose — a title tuned for
search and an og:title tuned for sharing is a legitimate choice, and
the checker will tell you they differ rather than assume it is a mistake.
Previews are approximations
Every card the checker renders says so on its face. Platforms change their layouts without notice, crop images differently, and cache aggressively — a preview you fixed an hour ago may still show the old version on their side for some time.
What is exact is the mapping: which tag produced which value. That does not change when a platform redesigns.
What the checker reports on this
- Missing og:title
- Missing og:description
- Missing og:image
- Missing twitter:card
- Missing og:site_name
- Title and og:title differ
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