Paste your video title and get an instant SEO + click-through check: length, keywords, power words, capitalisation and how it truncates in search.
Title and thumbnail work together. Test your thumbnail against proven examples — free.
Open the thumbnail tester Compare tester tools| Check | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| 25–60 characters | Long enough to say something, short enough not to be cut off. |
| Keyword near the front | Viewers scan the first few words; search weighs them too. |
| One number or year | Lists and dates (e.g. "2026") are concrete and lift clicks. |
| A power/curiosity word | how, why, best, free, guide, secret — they create a reason to click. |
| Clean capitalisation | ALL CAPS reads as spam; sentence or title case looks professional. |
| No !!! / ??? | Repeated punctuation looks clickbaity and can hurt trust. |
It checks the patterns that correlate with good titles — length, keywords, power words and truncation. It is a heuristic, not a look at YouTube's actual ranking.
Aim for roughly 25–60 characters. Search and the feed can cut longer titles, so put the important words first.
Yes — the title and thumbnail are the two biggest factors in whether someone clicks. Test both.
Yes. Check the title here, then run the thumbnail through the thumbnail tester.