Open Graph Tag Checker
Open Graph is a wonderful invention of Facebook which helps social media sites know information about your page to display them in the link-preview.
If your webpage contains open graph meta tags, social media sites will generate a beautiful layout based link-preview, containing the title of your page along with the description when the link of the page is shared.
With the help of an Open Graph Tag Checker you can check whether a webpage contains the open graph HTML tags or not.
Our free Open Graph Checker tool:
You can check the detailed info about the open graph meta tags of any website using our free open graph validator tool. The tool not only checks the existence of open graph tags on your website, but also tells you the detailed information/data of each tag.
Guide to use the open graph checker tool:
The open Open Graph meta tags checker tool is very easy and convenient to use.
You just have to put the link/URL of your website inside the tool and hit the “Check” button to run the checks. If the tool doesn’t find any open graph meta tags inside your webpage, it won’t return anything. But, if the tool find the presence of open graph tool in your webpage, it’ll display the information like this:
Understanding the output of the open graph checker tool:
In the column entitled “tag name” you’ll see the name of the meta tags present on the site and in the column entitled “value”, you’ll see the value of the meta tags.
og:locale:
For most websites, you’ll get to see the “og:locale” meta tag. This tag tells us about the language your webpage is on. If the value is reported to be ‘en_US”, it means the main content of the website is written in US English.
og:type:
This meta tag is used to specify the type of the content. You’ll most likely see the og:type to be reported as either article or website or blog post, etc.
og:title:
The og:title meta tag reports the title of the web page to the social media bots. Based on the inputs, this may or may not be the same as the original (meta) title of the site.
og:description:
The open graph description tag contains a description of the piece of content the tag was generated for. The open graph checker tool will show you the complete description as is in the tag, but for best accessibility, limit it within 200 characters.
og:url:
The og:url tag basically outputs the URL of the webpage you just inputted.
og:site_name:
The og:site_name tag will report the name of the website
og:image:
You’ll find the link to the image in this section. Generally open graph meta tags contain just 1 image tag, however if your webpage has multiple og:image tag, you’ll see them all here.
og:image:secure_url:
If your site uses HTTPS, you’ll find the HTTPS link in this section. If your site’s settings force visitors to load pages on HTTPS, the og:image:secure_url will be the same as reported by the og:image tag.
og:image:width & og:image:height:
These 2 sections will report the width and height of the given image respectively.
og:image :type
You’ll find the type of image in this section. If the image reported previously is in PNG format, it’ll show as “image/png”.
Frequently asked question about the Facebook meta tags checker tool:
How do I check og meta tags?
Ans: Look into the head section of your HTML code. If it contains something like <meta property="og:type" content=".....">, it means there are og meta tags present in your website.
Why does the tool not report anything after I click on the check button?
Ans: If you have entered the correct URL of the website and clicked the enter button but still the tool hasn’t reported anything, it means that there are no open graph (og) tags present in the website.
What are the other og tags?
Ans: The other og tags you can find in a website are -
og:audio: for an audio file.
og:video: for a video file, etc.
