Headline Analyzer

Score your headline for length, power words, emotion, and SERP fit — instantly and free.

What this tool does

The Headline Analyzer scores any blog title or article headline out of 100 and shows you exactly where it loses points. Paste a headline and you'll get an instant breakdown of its length in characters and words, whether it fits in a Google search result without being cut off, how many power words and emotional words it uses, whether it contains a number or a question, and how balanced its common, uncommon, and emotional word mix is.

Headlines decide whether anyone reads the rest of your work. On the search results page, your title tag is one of only two things a searcher sees before choosing where to click — a stronger headline with the same ranking wins measurably more traffic. The best-performing headlines tend to sit between 50 and 60 characters, lead with a concrete promise, and include either a number, a power word, or an emotional hook.

Everything runs in your browser, so there is no signup, no rate limit, and nothing stored. Test as many variations as you like, keep the highest scorer, and if you want the whole article optimized — not just the headline — that's what SirWritesALot does all day.

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