LinkedIn link preview checker

Every link you post becomes a card, and the card is built from tags most pages get wrong. Paste a URL below to see how LinkedIn will render it, with a verdict per tag: the title it will use, whether the image exists at the 1200 by 627 LinkedIn rewards, and what to fix when the answer is no.

The same editor

You have been using our editor without the account.

The toolbar above is the one inside Depost AI: same styles, same bullets, same counter, same preview. What the free version cannot do is the hard part, which is knowing what to write in the first place.

It reads your analytics first

The draft starts from what has already worked on your audience: your hooks, your pillars, your posting patterns. This page can tell you a post is 240 characters. It cannot tell you the opening is one you have used four times.

Ask AI, and rewrite in place

Select a line and rewrite it, in your voice rather than in the flat register every generator defaults to. Accept, try again, or discard, without losing the draft you had.

The graphic comes with the post

Images, video, documents, and polls attach in the same editor, and the infographic is designed against the post rather than picked from a stock library afterwards.

It schedules itself into the gaps

Send a finished draft to the queue or to the next free slot, published through LinkedIn’s official API. Nothing goes out until you approve it.

Comments, reviewers, and a first comment

Leave a note on a selection, assign a reviewer, and have the first comment written with the post so it is ready the moment the post goes live.

Every revision is kept

Undo here lasts as long as the tab does. In the product, the version you had on Tuesday is still there on Friday.

Connect LinkedIn and you have a strategy, your pillars, and your first post ideas in about fifteen minutes.

The card is doing your click-through work

When a post carries a link, most readers decide from the card, not the commentary: the image stops the scroll and the bold line makes the offer. A missing og:image forfeits most of the card’s footprint in the feed, and a title that starts with your company name instead of the reader’s reason wastes the only bold text you get. The tags are a five-minute fix that outlives every post that ever shares the page, which is a better return than almost anything else you can do to a URL.

The failure modes are boringly consistent: no og tags at all on internal or campaign pages, a relative image path the crawler cannot resolve, an image behind a login, or a marketing site rebuild that shipped without the tags the old one had. The checker tests the real page and the real image file, so each of those shows up as its own line rather than as a mystery.

Fix, verify, then make LinkedIn look again

The order matters because of caching. Fix the tags, re-run the URL here to confirm the page now says what you mean, and then paste it into LinkedIn’s Post Inspector, which forces their crawler to refetch; without that step LinkedIn can keep serving the stale card for days. Once the card is right, the post around it deserves the same attention: the post preview tool on this site shows how the text and card sit together in the feed.

Questions

How does LinkedIn decide what a link preview looks like?
Its crawler fetches the page and reads the Open Graph tags: og:title for the bold line, og:image for the picture, og:site_name and the URL for the attribution. Without them it falls back to the page title and whatever image it can guess, which is where the mystery previews come from.
What image size does LinkedIn want?
1200 by 627 pixels, a 1.91:1 ratio, as the og:image. At or above that you get the full-width card; smaller images render small or get dropped. This checker loads the actual image and measures it, so the verdict is about the real file, not just the tag.
I fixed my tags but LinkedIn still shows the old preview. Why?
LinkedIn caches link previews for days, so a fixed page keeps showing its old card. The fix is LinkedIn's own Post Inspector: paste the URL there and it recrawls immediately. This checker always fetches fresh, so use it to verify the fix, then the Inspector to make LinkedIn see it.
Why does my preview have no image even though the page has pictures?
The crawler does not scavenge your page for a nice picture; it reads og:image and mostly stops there. If the tag is missing, points at a relative URL, needs a login, or blocks hotlinking, the card ships without an image. The checker flags each of those separately.
Does the description matter?
Not for the feed card, which shows only the image, title, and domain. It still matters everywhere else the page is unfurled: search snippets, Slack, other social platforms. The checker reports it as a pass-or-warn rather than a failure for exactly that reason.
Is it free?
Yes, without an account. A daily cap on checks keeps it available for everyone. The URL you check is fetched once by our server and the result is briefly cached; nothing else is stored.

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