How metacritic.com Looks on Google Search

40/100
Poor
4 fixes recommended

This page shows how metacritic.com appears when shared on Google Search. The current preview headline reads "Movie Reviews, TV Reviews, Game Reviews, and Music Reviews - Metacritic". A description is set but no image - meaning the preview will render without a visual. Overall, metacritic.com's setup scores 40/100 against Google Search best practices.

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Movie Reviews, TV Reviews, Game Reviews, and Music Reviews -...

Metacritic aggregates music, game, tv, and movie reviews from the leading critics. Only Metacritic.com uses METASCORES, which let you know at a glance how each ...

Analysis

metacritic.com's social setup currently has 1 error and 3 warnings that affect how it renders on Google Search. The most impactful fixes are listed below - they range from missing required tags to image dimensions that will be cropped or rejected by specific platforms.

In particular: no social share image found; title is 71 characters - truncated on most platforms; description is 178 characters - truncated on most platforms. Each of these has a one-line fix in the recommendations panel above.

Frequently Asked Questions

No - metacritic.com does not currently set an `og:image` or `twitter:image`. Google Search will fall back to extracting an image from the page or render no preview image at all.

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