B
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19.7%
19.7% -- dash separator removal rate for Google (2025)
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19.7%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
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B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
tall.town
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Tier C
https://www.tall.town/blog/what-is-a-meta-title-analysis ↗
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What is a Meta Title Analysis - Tall Town Design
Your meta titles and descriptions are what entices someone on google search to click to your web page.
Google has recently changed their approach for meta titles and it sent shock waves through the SEO community who dubbed this change as “Titlepocalypse”. This change is Google’s more hands on approa…
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tall.town
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Blog citing an unnamed source on Google title rewrite behavior
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Google: 19.7% dash separator removal rate. Source: tall.town (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/google-removes-dash-separators-19-7
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