
I Built a Free OG Tag Checker — See How Your Links Look Before You Share Them
Ever shared a link on Twitter and the preview looked broken? No image, wrong title, generic description? That's because your Open Graph tags are missing or misconfigured. I built a free tool to check them instantly: OG Tag Checker Paste any URL, and you'll see: Link preview — exactly how your link appears on Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack All OG/Twitter meta tags — what's set, what's missing Score out of 10 — based on completeness of your meta tags Specific issues — like "Missing og:image — links without images get 50% less clicks" Why This Matters Links without proper OG tags get significantly fewer clicks when shared. Here's what happens: No og:image → Your link shows as a plain text URL. Nobody clicks that. No og:title → The browser guesses from your <title> tag, which is often wrong. No twitter:card → Twitter shows the smallest possible preview. Most devs set these up once and forget about them. Then they wonder why their Show HN post or tweet got no engagement — the link preview looked
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