Headline Analyzer
Paste a title and get a 0-100 score, plus specific fixes for length, power words, emotion, and specificity.
Paste a headline above to see your score and specific fixes.
What actually makes a headline work
A headline has one job: make the right person stop and click, and make the wrong person keep scrolling. Everything this tool measures serves that. Length keeps the promise visible in search results. A number sets expectations. Power and emotional words give the reader a reason to care. Specificity tells them the post was written for someone like them.
Specificity is the one most writers skip, and it's the one that moves results the most. "How to Get More Traffic" competes with a million pages. "How to Get Your First 1,000 Visitors Without Social Media" competes with a handful — and the people who click are exactly the people who will read to the end.
Don't chase 100. A perfect score on a headline that oversells is worse than an 80 on one that tells the truth. Use the checks to find the gap, fix that one thing, and go write. If you're still choosing what to write about, the idea generator comes first, and writing posts faster comes next.
Frequently asked questions
- How is the headline score calculated?
- Seven checks add up to 100: character length, word count, whether it contains a number, power words, emotional words, how-to or question framing, and specificity. Starting on a weak filler word costs five points.
- What is a good headline score?
- Seventy or above is strong and ready to publish. Fifty-five to sixty-nine usually needs one specific fix — most often a number or a qualifier. Below fifty-five, the headline is too vague to earn a click.
- Why does headline length matter for SEO?
- Google typically shows around 60 characters of a title in search results. Anything longer gets cut off, so the part that convinces someone to click may never be seen. Forty to sixty characters is the sweet spot.
- Does a high score guarantee traffic?
- No. A headline earns the click; the article earns the return visit and the ranking. Use the score to catch weak titles fast, then put your effort into the writing itself.
- Is this headline analyzer free?
- Yes. It runs entirely in your browser, stores nothing, and needs no account or email address.