Video SEO Score Calculator

It totals five weighted components -- title length, description length, tag count, chapter timestamps, and closed captions -- each scored against ranges commonly recommended for video platforms. It reflects metadata hygiene, not actual search ranking, view count, or audience engagement, which depend on factors like watch time and click-through rate that this calculator does not measure.

Each component is scored in bands, not continuously. A title anywhere from 40 to 70 characters earns the full 25 points regardless of exactly where it falls in that range, so a small edit inside the band produces an identical score. The score only moves when an edit pushes a value across one of the defined thresholds into a different band.

Title length can earn up to 25 points, description length up to 25, tag count up to 20, and timestamps and closed captions each contribute a flat 15-point bonus if present. Timestamps and captions are pass/fail bonuses rather than graded ranges, so simply enabling them adds their full point value to the total.

No. A 100 confirms the title, description, tags, timestamps, and captions all fall within commonly recommended ranges, but real search and recommendation ranking also weighs watch time, click-through rate, audience retention, and external engagement like shares and embeds -- none of which this calculator can see or measure from these five inputs alone.

Both. Captions and transcripts give search crawlers readable text to index when a video itself has no machine-readable content, and timestamped chapters help platforms understand a video's structure and surface specific segments in search results. That's why this calculator treats them as scoring bonuses rather than purely accessibility add-ons, even though they also improve accessibility.