Meta description is long enough to be truncated
This page's meta description is the value characters.
Why it matters
This page's meta description is the value characters. Search engines display roughly the first 155-160 and cut the rest, so the closing part of this description — often where the call to action sits — will not be shown. The description does not affect ranking, but it is the sales copy of your search result, and a sentence that stops mid-thought reads as unfinished.
How ShipReady detects it
Search-engine basics, deliberately shallow. Lighthouse does SEO auditing thoroughly, for free, from Google, built into every browser. This module does not try to compete with that and should never grow to. It exists so a ShipReady report is not conspicuously silent on the subject, and it covers exactly the things a founder is likely to have got wrong without knowing — chiefly a `noindex` left over from staging, which makes a site invisible to search entirely. Every rule reads only the page HTML and response headers already fetched by PageContext. The module issues **no HTTP requests of its own**, which is why it can be this cheap: it is pure analysis of bytes the scan already has. Deliberately NOT covered: keyword analysis, backlinks, content quality, Core Web Vitals, and anything else that needs crawling or a second data source. Also not duplicated here: title, description, og:title, robots.txt, sitemap.xml and custom 404, all of which the readiness check already reports.
Detection is deterministic. ShipReady reports this only when it observes the condition directly, and prefers to miss a real problem over inventing one. Rule version 1.3.0.
How to fix it
This is the prompt ShipReady puts in your report — written to be pasted straight into Cursor, Claude Code, or whichever assistant built the app.
This page's meta description is long enough that search engines will truncate it mid-sentence. Aim for roughly 150-160 characters, front-load what matters, and treat it as the sales copy for your search result rather than a summary of the whole page. The description does not affect ranking, so this is about click-through, not position. If descriptions are generated from the first paragraph of page content, cap the generated length instead of fixing each page by hand.
Frequently asked questions
- What does "Meta description is long enough to be truncated" mean?
- This page's meta description is the value characters.
- How serious is it?
- ShipReady rates this low. Worth fixing. Small individually, and they accumulate.
- How do I fix it?
- Paste the fix prompt on this page into Cursor, Claude Code or your AI editor. It is the same prompt ShipReady puts in your report.
- Can I check my own site?
- Yes — ShipReady scans up to ten pages of any public site for free and reports this alongside every other check. The free report lists every issue it finds and shows full evidence and a fix prompt for the critical and high-severity ones; medium and low findings are counted and unlock on Pro.
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