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How to avoid exceeding Gmail's 10,000-character limit with our best practices?
How to avoid exceeding Gmail's 10,000-character limit with our best practices?

Find out more about Gmail requirements and best practices in this article.

Dieliya DIOP avatar
Written by Dieliya DIOP
Updated over a week ago

Gmail limits the number of characters contained in the code of a signature to 10k, these characters are not only the contact details that you can see but also the code of images, links, the HTML code generated, etc.

If you go over the 10k limit, Gmail might display an incomplete signature or may not display anything at all.

Letsignit provides you with an estimated count of characters contained in the signature but bear in mind that it can change from user to user as contact details or custom links can vary.

Here are a few best practices you can follow to make sure :

1. Replace spacing blocks with manual padding.

2. Reduce the width of attributes.

If you find that the attribute block is quite wide (with a value indicated in one of the attributes), we invite you to reduce it. For example:

  1. Edit mode (to the right of the designer):

    image

  2. Change the value if one is indicated among the different attributes:

    image

3. Replace prefixes with image blocks.

4. Disable link tracking.

Removing the tracking link reduces the length of your signature's HTML code so that it no longer exceeds 10,000 characters.

However, you will no longer see the number of clicks displayed.

If you wish to reactivate tracking, we invite you to try reducing the size of your signature, referring to the previous points, or removing certain blocks, or those containing URL links (counted as additional characters).

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