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    Screaming Frog

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Pricing
    Screaming Frog
    Editions & Modules
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Screaming Frog
    Free Trial
    No
    Free/Freemium Version
    Yes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    No
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    Screaming Frog
    Considered Both Products
    Screaming Frog
    Chose Screaming Frog
    When it comes to crawling a website nothing can beat Screaming Frog.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The biggest difference between DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog is cost. Screaming Frog is significantly cheaper, and fits within a budget much easier. For most websites that aren't huge it crawls quicker to. DeepCrawl is the better tool for analysing larger websites and is easier …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Please note that, while Screaming Frog is a great tool for scanning the website all it is, is a tool that scans the website. For deeper analysis or for keyword analysis, please take a look at tools like Semrush and Ahrefs for your medium size business, or Conductor for a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog provides some similar benefits as the other tools but offers a wealth of other scanning options that the other tools don’t. I like how every scan of a URL (yours, a competitor’s, or any URL) provides 30+ points of data. The other tools offer other benefits that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider does so much...a lot of these tools, in theory, should be used together because they lend big picture insights. But Screaming Frog SEO Spider is excellent because it can work directly with tools like Google Analytics.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    There aren't many direct competitors for Screaming Frog SEO Spider that I've found. Tools such as Moz provide similar outcomes, but in a completely different manner and with a different workflow. I can't really compare them.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The choice to go with Screaming Frog was really mostly about price and the fact that it does almost the same exact thing. There are a few things that DeepCrawl does that Screaming Frog doesn't, but it wasn't worth the increase in price.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog has a free version, so it competes with the paid programs (like Moz) solely in the fact that it can be used without incurring a budget line item. Compared to many other programs that also offer free scans, Screaming Frog is fast and much more customizable. Since …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is far superior to the host of free crawling tools available online and does not limit you to a certain number of pages as many other tools do. We were looking for just a crawling tool and not a more robust SEO tool like Moz, so this was perfect for us.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    A highly competent tool that leads in some areas and not in others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    I use several tools that can do much of what Screaming Frog can do - SEMRush and SEO PowerSuite. However, for what we use Screaming Frog for, it is the best tool. During a 15-minute phone call with a potential new client, I can crawl the site and determine what shape the site …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog seems to be the most thorough at crawling a website. Almost too thorough ;). But it is spreadsheet-like and so allows sorting and filtering in a simple way. But in general, with Screaming Frog I trust that it gets everything when it crawls a website.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is different than a tool like SEMRush. It is a crawler that allows you to see the data like Google would see it when they crawl your site. A tool like SEMRush, or MOZ, gives you more analysis around SEO for the website you are reviewing. I wouldn't want to be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Our company also uses Website Auditor from the SEO PowerSuite by LinkAssistant and it's a great tool with a lot of fancy features and even an IA (information architecture) visualization which shows you how your website looks and how your pages interconnect.

    Screaming Frog is a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Authority Labs is good for a limited function--tracking keyword rankings (though its keyword suggestion capability has recently improved as well) but doesn't do the page crawling that Screaming Frog does. Serpstat and SEMRush both have a lot more functions but also cost …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a downloadable desktop app. Its minimalist design makes for a straight forward seamless site crawling SEO experience. We use all these products and Screaming Frog fits in nicely as a member of our SEO product team. Each product has its strengths and weaknesses …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The HTML-heavy little platform, Screaming Frog, is my favorite crawler compared to DeepCrawl and SEMRush. Partially precisely due to the fact that the tool doesn't try to give me recommendations or tell me what to do. Many similar tools go above and beyond to prescribe …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The tools I mentioned are in the same space, tools for SEO, but aren't website scrapers like Screaming Frog. We haven't found another tool that we like as much for providing simple and straight forward insights about a website.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    I have not used any similar tools to Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Even though Screaming Frog is the industry standard, that doesn't mean that it's without its flaws. The crawl visualization is sub-par compared to Sitebulb, and the UX/UI looks like it's from the 90s and hasn't been updated since then. Tools like DeepCrawl and Sitebulb are …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    SEMRush is not a dedicated on-demand SEO crawler like Screaming Frog. SEMRush is more of a digital marketing suite that happens to offer SEO crawling along with other marketing tools. As such, it's much more of a commitment; which you'll notice with a monthly cost versus a …
    Incentivized
    Chose 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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    We have a deep crawl integration with another tool and still find the information on DeepCrawl valuable because this tool is better at listing out reccomendations. However, Screaming Frog is easier to use, doesn't have limits on how many crawls it can run (on the Pro plan we …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    Screaming Frog
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.6
    53 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Keyword analysis7.020 Ratings
    Backlink management5.023 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking7.09 Ratings
    Page grader7.122 Ratings
    Competitive analysis7.927 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics8.353 Ratings
    Site recommendations7.924 Ratings
    Task management3.09 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    7.0
    37 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Local SEO5.017 Ratings
    Social SEO7.112 Ratings
    Mobile SEO7.923 Ratings
    Global SEO7.929 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    6.1
    42 Ratings
    32% below category average
    Multi-domain support7.831 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools4.435 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Screaming Frog
    Small Businesses
    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Screaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (55 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Screaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    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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    Support Rating
    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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    Implementation Rating
    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
    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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    Return on Investment
    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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