See the meta description your page actually serves, its length, and whether it is missing entirely. The snippet decides the click after the ranking is already won.
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This reads the meta description from the live page, reports its exact text and length, and flags the useful boundaries: under 50 characters is thin, over 165 will usually be cut. It is checked alongside the title because the two are read together in a result, and a page where one is carefully written and the other is auto generated is a common and avoidable mismatch.
The meta description is not a ranking factor and it is still worth writing, because it decides what happens after the ranking. Two results in the same position with different snippets do not get the same clicks. Leaving it blank hands the decision to a search engine, which will assemble something from the page, often a navigation fragment or a cookie notice, and that assembled snippet is the pitch a stranger reads.
Missing is scored as a warning rather than a failure because a search engine will generate something. That something is just rarely as good as one sentence written by somebody who knows what the page is for. Short descriptions waste the space; long ones are cut mid sentence, so put the promise in the first 120 characters. Duplicated descriptions across a site are a template problem and are worth more attention than any single page.
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Between 50 and 160 characters. Google truncates on pixel width and on mobile the visible space is smaller, so the important half of the sentence should come first.
No, not directly. It affects the click through rate, which affects how much traffic a given ranking is worth. Treat it as ad copy for a placement you already own.
Every page that matters commercially. For very large catalogues a good generated pattern beats thousands of identical strings, and beats leaving it empty on the pages that convert.
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