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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Crazy Egg

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ACrazy Egg is a heat map web analytics product.

    $24

    per month

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Pricing
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    Editions & Modules
    Crazy Egg
    $24.00
    per month
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    Considered Both Products
    Crazy Egg
    Chose Crazy Egg
    There are a lot of tools with similar feature and closely equal pricing- This factor is the most confusing. As we need something for our website and not every tool has everything and it took time for us to understand this. We choose Crazy Egg for its ease of using and anyone …
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    Screaming Frog
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    89%
    Would buy again
    8 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    7 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    8 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Crazy Egg and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Crazy Egg
    -
    Ratings
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.6
    53 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings7.020 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings5.023 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings7.09 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings7.122 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings7.827 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings8.353 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings3.09 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Crazy Egg and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Crazy Egg
    -
    Ratings
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    7.0
    37 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings5.017 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings7.112 Ratings
    Mobile SEO00 Ratings7.823 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings7.829 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Crazy Egg and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Crazy Egg
    -
    Ratings
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.1
    42 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings7.831 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings4.435 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Smartlook
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (35 ratings)
    8.6
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.5
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Availability
    7.1
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    2.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.0
    (7 ratings)
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    Online Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.8
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Crazy EggScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Crazy Egg
    + I strongly believe that this tool helps when a firm has good user count (depends on business model) as most of these tools are data friends. More data - more valuable insights + Best fit if someone who is looking for deeper insights of individual page - Not suggested for very fewer visits of a website. Suggested to improve better visit count
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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    Pros
    Crazy Egg
    • Provides heatmaps that shows you the elements on your site that are and aren't performing well.
    • Provides scrollmaps so you can see how far down a page users are scrolling and which content never gets seen.
    • Screenshots show you how your website looks across a variety of different devices.
    • Provides a type of clickmap called confetti that enables you visualise clicks by segments - device, new/returning visitors, campaigns and other metrics.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
    • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
    • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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    Cons
    Crazy Egg
    • The largest thing we've struggled with is the Optimizely integration. I've contacted customer service a few times to get it properly setup. Customer Service is always friendly and helpful; they provide clear steps to get it setup. Unfortunately despite clear instructions, they are tedious, and if not completed in the correct order, the integration with Optimizely does not work. My success rate with the integration is less than 55%.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
    • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
    • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Crazy Egg
    It's a great tool considering how inexpensive it is. If used correctly and you have a plan for tracking your websites, this tool can make a world of a difference. If you are not going to sit down and take the time to make a plan for how to use this tool, I would say it is not worth your time. Yes, you can look at items on your website that need to be changed, but without a consistent plan, other important items that need changing can be lost in the mix. Make sure you have enough time and energy to invest in this and it will be well worth it
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    Screaming Frog
    The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
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    Usability
    Crazy Egg
    Crazy Egg is extremely easy to set up and use, and very well done from a user experience standpoint. It is really helpful that I can give stakeholders access to the interface and get them interacting with it with minimal training. The A/B testing is the easiest I have ever used, with minimal performance impact to the website.
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    Screaming Frog
    The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
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    Reliability and Availability
    Crazy Egg
    It's slow to post data, and slow to get a snapshot to finally be active (i.e. not pending). Not intolerable, but would be nice to see data within a couple hours. Often have to wait to the next day.
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    Screaming Frog
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Crazy Egg
    I think support is an area where Crazy Egg is lacking. I would love to have a quarterly check-in with a Crazy Egg rep to understand what kinds of changes have been made to the platform and what is on the horizon. I also think a quick consulting sessions with a rep could be extremely beneficial, as I'm sure there are ways to use the tool that we haven't even thought about yet that would be extremely insightful for our team.
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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    Online Training
    Crazy Egg
    Crazy Egg is the best CRO and LPO tool for performance marketers who have a limited budget!
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    Screaming Frog
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Crazy Egg
    It is simple. JavaScript code needs to be added to any pages where you want to run tests. That's it.
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    Screaming Frog
    If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
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    Alternatives Considered
    Crazy Egg
    I will say that I didn't evaluate or select Crazy Egg, it's been a legacy tool that has been at the company before me. Honestly, we're not even sure of all of the features/functionality that we can use. Me, as a UXR, I think there are some other tools that would help me more in gaining visibility into what our users are doing on our website. I've evaluated other tools that are more aligned with UXR. However, if we properly paired it with experimentation, this might be more of a valuable tool for us.
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
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    Scalability
    Crazy Egg
    Its reliability (not scaleability, as the question asks for, sorry) is pretty good but through our testing we know that some clicks do not get recorded. It doesn't bother us a lot because we look at the aggregate of thousands of visits, but we do know it misses things. As for scaleability, it's about right. You really don't want zillions of clicks per snapshot - the screen just turns to 100% dots and you lose the ability to differentiate different screen areas. We find that 25,000 clicks for a page gives us a really good view.
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    Screaming Frog
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Crazy Egg
    • Very Positive impact on ROI as it pointed towards some specific flaws of the website. These flaws were removed on a regular basis.
    • It constantly helps finetune our website to the requirements of the users. This helps in boosting our business development efforts.
    • It helps us to remove or modify the least visited sections of the website. Thus removing the limitations that hamper our growth.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
    • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
    • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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