Make sure your website looks its best when shared online! Social Share Previewer scans your web pages and checks for Open Graph (OG) tags, ensuring your content appears as intended across social media and messaging platforms.
🔍 What Does It Do?
Analyze Open Graph Tags – Instantly check for og:title, og:description, og:image, and og:type tags to see what your page will look like when shared.
Image Quality Check – Ensure your OG image meets the right resolution and format requirements for platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
Title & Description Length Validation – Avoid truncation by verifying that your OG title and description fit within recommended character limits.
Missing Image Detection – If no OG image is found, our tool predicts which image social platforms might use instead.
Comprehensive Reports – Export and filter pages with issues, so you can quickly fix any errors and optimize your social previews.
With Social Share Previewer, you can take control of your social sharing experience, boost engagement, and ensure your website looks professional wherever it’s shared. Try it today! 🚀
Hello everyone, in this video I'm going to show you how to use our Social Share Preview tool.
This tool accepts any website and will scan every page on that site to determine how optimized each page is for sharing on social media platforms.
Let’s break that down a bit more. Whenever you share a page from a website on Facebook, Facebook looks at that URL and searches for specific HTML tags inside the page. These tags tell Facebook how to display your page when it appears on someone’s feed.
These special HTML tags are often things like Open Graph tags.
So, this tool downloads all your pages and checks whether you have the right Open Graph tags, and what your page will look like when shared on Facebook. For example, will the title or description be cut off? When the page is shared, might the wrong or unrelated image appear? It’s those kinds of issues the tool detects.
I’ve entered a random website here as an example. There aren’t many settings in this tool. You simply enter your website here. If there are any pages you do or don’t want to check, you can use the page include/exclude rules setting.
If you know your website can be scanned quickly, you can leave the scan speed setting as it is or increase it. But if you’re unsure and want to avoid your IP getting temporarily blocked, just lower it to around five.
Let’s start a scan and come back in a few minutes once it’s finished downloading and analyzing every page on the website.
After a few minutes, we’ve come back and found 1,314 pages that are fine, and 567 pages that have at least one issue.
Take a moment to read the overview here. For example, 23 pages are missing the Open Graph type tag. Clicking the question mark next to each tag will explain what that tag does.
There are 20 pages missing the og:title tag. This tag is important because it tells Facebook what title your article should have when shared on its platform. You can see an example here — that’s a good, short, and descriptive og:title tag.
We can also see 23 pages with no title tag at all for when they’re shared on Facebook.
Next, there are 294 pages missing the og:description tag. In this example, the description is too long and gets cut off halfway through — that’s why it’s been flagged.
We’ve also found 79 pages missing the og:image tag. This tag tells social platforms what image to display when your page is shared. If no og:image is specified, Facebook or other platforms will try to guess which image to show — usually just grabbing the first one that meets the right size. This can result in an unrelated image being displayed when your page is shared.
So, it’s important to include an og:image tag that specifies exactly which image should appear when your page is shared on social media.
The tool also checks that your title and description tags aren’t too long, as they’ll be cut off if they exceed character limits. It also checks whether your og:image is the right shape and size for optimal display.
Let’s look at some of the results. Before that, note there are filters at the top — if there’s an issue you don’t care about, you can simply click to hide it.
In our first example, the og:description tag is missing. That’s a problem because, just like with the og:image tag, platforms will try to guess what the description should be — and they don’t always get it right, especially if your HTML doesn’t include a proper meta description.
For each page, the tool lists which tags it found. For example, it might show that an og:image tag is present, which is good — it means the page is telling Facebook what image to show.
There’s also a Facebook Preview tool built in. You can click to see exactly how any page will appear when shared on Facebook.
Here’s another example — the description tag is over 200 characters, so it gets cut off in the preview. That’s why the tool flags it as too long. Similarly, if the og:title tag is over 60 characters, it may also be cut off.
By applying filters, we can focus only on issues with the og:image tag. In some cases, the platform has to guess which image to use. Luckily, in our example site, most guessed images aren’t terrible, but they’re not always ideal. For example, a page about kitchen tools might show a random image instead of something relevant like a set of knives.
That’s why specifying your own og:image is important — you don’t want Facebook guessing.
So that concludes our demo. Hopefully, you can see that this tool makes it easy to scan your website and optimize how it appears when shared online.
You might be surprised how much your traffic can increase by optimizing these elements. When people see a shared post with a relevant image and a clean title, they’re more likely to click. On the other hand, if the image is irrelevant or the title is cut off, people may ignore it — or worse, think it’s spam.
So this is definitely something worth improving if you want to drive more traffic to your website from social platforms.
That’s the end of the demo — as always, thank you for watching.
