description.long

Description is long. Level: Warning.

When it is raised

Raised when the description is more than 200 and at most 300 characters long; above 300 the API raises description.very-long instead. The description is the first non-empty value of og:description, twitter:description and <meta name="description">, trimmed, and characters are counted as user-perceived characters (grapheme clusters), so an emoji or a flag counts as one.

What it does to a shared link

The description is longer than the 200 characters the API treats as the safe length, so its end is the part most likely to be cut from a card.

How to fix it

  1. Shorten the description to between 100 and 200 characters; under 100 raises the description.under-linkedin-min tip.
  2. Put the most important words first, so that any shortening removes the least useful part.
<meta property="og:description" content="A one- or two-sentence summary of what this page offers the reader, written to fall between 100 and 200 characters.">

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