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January 22, 2020
Big time-saver and makes technical SEO life so much easier!
We use it for technical SEO audits, checks, and QA. It has helped us scale efforts in those areas.
- Audit redirects en masse - important bc stuff like that would take forever to do manually.
- Site launch audits - again, it would take forever to check the technical aspects of a site launch manually.
- Site speed measurement could be added/approved. Current page speed functionality is helpful at times but could be more robust.
January 18, 2020
Great free tool for small SEO budgets
When doing SEO for any of our websites, I like to start by using Screaming Frog to crawl the site. This gives me a starting point to examine meta data, see how discoverable the pages are on the website, and build the sitemap for submission. This is especially useful on web platforms that don't have their own sitemap generator.
- Sitemap building.
- Site crawling.
- The UI is a bi confusing, especially for the uninitiated.
- Though very customizable, default settings can cause server issues due to high traffic.
January 07, 2020
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is no toad!
Screaming Frog is our go-to audit tool when first looking at a potential new project. Even the free version of Screaming Frog is quite useful. It is used company-wide and it the fastest way we have found to get a good "look" at the on-page health of a site. And with the paid version it allows integration with Google Analytics and Search Console (WMT). With SF and Google Sheets you can build a fairly comprehensive overview of metas, alt tags, image size, titles, H tags, etc. in a very short amount of time.
- A solid crawler with a lot of options.
- Allows one to see the core SEO elements of a site very quickly.
- The paid version is a bit pricey but for what it does it's worth it.
- The UX can see a bit confusing at first, but once you begin to use it the learning curve is quick.
January 07, 2020
Screaming Frog is An Excellent Tool for SEO
I use Screaming Frog for every one of my clients. It allows me to quickly see if there are any underlying issues with their web pages that can be addressed to help with their rankings or usability. One crawl and I can filter in many ways to view just the data I need.
- Allows me to see what pages can be indexed by the search engines
- Shows me quickly if there is any meta information missing
- If I am working with a larger site it's difficult to get Screaming Frog to scan the whole site. I have to stop the scan and reset some settings to get it to work and even then I have had issues.
December 30, 2019
Screaming Frog - A Go-to Technical SEO tool
Our organization specializes in marketing and website audits. Screaming Frog is the first thing we fire up when investigating a website, be it our client or the competition. This way we immediately see how a website is perceived in the eyes if Google, what pages are properly indexed or not, title and meta tags and even Google Analytics data.
Screaming Frog is the perfect diagnostics tool for any website auditor and a starting point for any digital marketing campaign.
Screaming Frog is the perfect diagnostics tool for any website auditor and a starting point for any digital marketing campaign.
- Website crawling - see any website the way search engines see it.
- Technical SEO - find out which pages have difficulties being indexed and improve alt tags, canonical tags, redirects, Schema.org, sitemaps, etc.
- Onsite SEO - improve title tags, header tags, description tags, etc.
- Exporting data - not the best way of naming the files you export, also you cannot export graphs that are generated in the sidebar.
- Crawling large websites - it takes a lot of memory and takes a lot of time (sometimes days), they could consider creating a SaaS for these cases.
- Doesn't crawl content so no data regarding duplicate or similar content is generated.
I use as part of my audit process with every new client as well as clients looking to develop new websites. It is ideal for capturing all of the pages on the site along with meta information, different page types, finding 301 redirect issues, word counts, meta tag character counts, and much more.
- Fast crawling even on large websites.
- Comprehensive listing of pages of all types, not just HTML.
- All meta tag information including character counts.
- Page word counts in order to identify thin-content pages.
- Would be great to have backlink information.
- Would be great to get more guidance on what words or phrases a page should be optimized for.
- Would be great to identify pages with duplicate or extremely similar content.
October 25, 2019
A Fast and Easy Way to Explore SEO Opportunities on Any Website
Screaming Frog is essential to providing SEO services to all my clients. We also use it for gaining insights about our own website. It's great for winning potential clients because it very quickly and easily reveals issues with their websites. And finally, it's just good for making the back-end of any website transparent, which is helpful for other aspects of marketing, i.e., exploring the competition.
- It has a reliable user interface that makes it easy and fast to scan a website.
- Reveals issues and opportunities for website optimization.
- It allows you to filter results, so you can drill down to where the problems are.
- You can export lists, so clients can either fix issues themselves or it's "proof" of what you're working on for them.
- There's a bit of jargon in terms of labeling, and with so much data available, it would be nice to have "inline" explanations of what we're looking at.
- Perhaps better graphical representations of the data, which would be helpful when explaining it to clients.
- Maybe offer recommendations for fixing issues that are found with a website?
January 16, 2020
This Frog Screams Digital Marketing Insights
Having been doing SEO for 20 plus years - Screaming Frog SEO has been a tool that since it first launched that I have used consistently. It crawls a site and gives insights into all areas that technical SEO needs to examine. I highly recommend this tool - use it - learn how to read the numbers and develop responses to the information - whether it is duplicate tags and content, use of H tags, internal and external linking - the tool covers all the areas you need to improve the organic rankings of your site
- Check title and description lengths
- See duplicate title and descriptions
- Could break results out into categories to streamline and quicken the process.
- The schema information is lacking.
January 23, 2020
Fast and accurate web crawler for SEO projects.
We use Screaming Frog SEO Spider in our marketing team to solve a number of website related problems. We initially started using Screaming Frog SEO Spider to crawl websites we were working on to develop a list of pages, titles, meta data, and more. We use this data as a basis for our website content audits.
- Website crawling.
- Meta data extraction.
- Free version limited.
January 21, 2020
Screaming Frog SEO - Got to have this for SEO
Screaming Frog is being used by our organization to analyze our technical SEO strategy and to catch any site errors that may occur. Since we have a massive amount pages on our website, we use Screaming Frog to assure each page has the proper headline, title, and meta description for SEO purposes.
- Scanning websites and giving accurate information on each page.
- Quickly pulls sitemaps within minutes.
- User interface can be daunting at first, but through repetitive use it becomes familiar.
- Would require some technical SEO understanding to utilize the tool to its fullest potential.
Our digital agency uses Screaming Frog to help with website audits specifically for SEO related information including metadata, URLs, page titles, response codes, etc. We also use the tool for new website launches to crawl the current site and export URLs to aid with the creation of 301 redirects when necessary.
- Website crawler is solid, making it easy to export into a spreadsheet.
- Analyzes page titles and meta data of your website to help with SEO.
- The UI is a little dated but has improved in recent years.
- Not as intuitive for new users, requires some getting used to and experimenting.
January 07, 2020
A thorough web crawler with helpful SEO and site info
It is used by the SEO department for crawling and website troubleshooting needs. It helps us see all URLs on a site. It helps us notice if there is missing or duplicative metadata. It helps identify 404s or other issues with URLs. It also helps generate an xml sitemap file.
- Crawling an entire website
- Gathering all URLs on the site
- Telling you where a 404ing URL was found on the site
- It crashes sometimes when you first open it
November 08, 2019
Don't tell my clients how easy Screaming Frog makes my job!
It's used in the search and analytics department. I use it for crafting pitches - getting insights on possible site issues on a client site - troubleshooting any site issues for active clients, and completing audits, particularly tracking internal linking webs, scraping metadata, and assessing status code issues - both within the web app and in Excel spreadsheets.
- I love the ability to scrape all internal links on the site - even with anchor text! Great for troubleshooting site circulation.
- The Building Tree view is useful for quick visualization of the site structure.
- I just love being able to scrape all the metadata - makes the setup for optimization super easy.
- The Crawl Tree Graph always seems like it would be great, but the output is extremely unwieldy
- Sometimes the status codes come out wrong - I always feel the need to double-check a few, when I end up with a list of 404s—and often I need to run them again in list mode to get the proper code. Not sure why!
- I wish you could save a crawl within the platform - say I crawl a site, then crawl a different one, and want to poke around within the platform at that first site again. It seems I just have to perform the crawl again, rather than being able to load up an old crawl.
November 07, 2019
Screaming Frog Review
We use Screaming Frog to give a high-level overview and almost a self-audit style report on our site health. Screaming Frog's crawling capabilities make pulling reports quick and convenient. The content of the reports gives us a total aerial snapshot of site pages and allows for quick changes to be made.
- Quick crawls.
- The free version is pretty comprehensive.
- Reports able to pull in CSV format.
- Premium version could be cheaper.
- Integration with other analytics tools - Currently just GA.
- A scheduling option for the free version would be great.
October 24, 2019
Site audits start here
Screaming Frog is where every site audit begins. More and more, Google cares about the integrity of a site's links, tags and page structure. Given the importance of search to our business, losing rank because of broken links and missing tags is an unacceptable loss. SF helps us make sure we're producing top-quality pages and maximizing our search potential.
- Validates tags.
- It helps with canonicalization.
- Corrects problems with no index.
- Checks internal and external links.
- Screaming Frog runs locally. It would be nice to see a pure cloud-based version.
- It's a very complete piece of software which means it can take a while to learn.
October 15, 2019
SEO Spider — One Spider You Won't Want to Get Rid Of
My company builds websites for clients, and something we focus on is SEO. That being said, it's important to the health of every website to ensure proper 301 redirects are in place before launching a brand new version of the website. If URLs change but old ones are still being crawled by search engines, this is a huge detriment to the visibility of the website.
As a champion for our clients, it's necessary to anticipate these changes before it becomes too late. Screaming Frog SEO Spider has made it extremely easy for us to pinpoint which URLs will need to be redirected. It completely takes the guesswork out of ensuring accuracy.
As a champion for our clients, it's necessary to anticipate these changes before it becomes too late. Screaming Frog SEO Spider has made it extremely easy for us to pinpoint which URLs will need to be redirected. It completely takes the guesswork out of ensuring accuracy.
- It's simple to use. Just add in the URL you need to crawl and within minutes, it's ready to go.
- It breaks down URLs and site components by HTML, Images, etc. so you know what to look for.
- It's easily exportable so you can download the spreadsheet and get to work.
- Because there's so much information given, it's difficult for a novice user to instantly understand where to look.
- The overall UX could use some updating. Next steps aren't always super clear.
September 27, 2019
Helps us save time during local SEO projects
We use Screaming Frog across our organization to address potential SEO issues on client websites, as well as to crawl sites for particular types of files (ex. images). It helps us perform day-to-day SEO tasks for our clients' websites.
- Lots of customization options on crawls
- Great at extracting in-depth, niche details about pages and websites
- Reliable--few to no glitches
- Can be intimidating for beginners due to dizzying array of options
- Customer service can be slow to respond
June 20, 2019
Simple and powerful crawler for websites
We are a small company that focuses on digital marketing and SEO service for our clients. Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a great tool to check out what internal structure a client website has. It works like Google robot and scans a website for links and makes list of website pages. After a full scan, you get a report about the basic info of these pages (meta tags, different kinds of errors) and you can create a sitemap with pages and images.
- You receive a report with internal structure of the website (Pages with status codes, depth structure)
- List of the pages with incorrect meta tags: meta titles & descriptions, also H1 tags
- List of the pages with insecure content and links to this content
- List with 404 errors and response codes
- List with pages where there is Google Analytics ID mismatch
- Can create sitemap with pages and images
- You can't pay per projects, only a subscription is available
- You need a lot of RAM for big websites (more then 10 millions pages)
- No cloud version
March 29, 2019
Screaming Frog is the industry standard
We use Screaming Frog to crawl our website for Technical SEO errors. It allows us to check our site's health on a large scale. Instead of having to check each page manually, we're able to do it all at once. Only our SEO team uses it currently, but we are often exporting the results of the crawl and sharing it with our Dev team for fixes that need to be made.
- Find Broken Links.
- Crawl Site and Analyze Meta Data.
- Finding redirect chains and diagnosing technical errors.
- Sitemap cleanup/generation.
- UX/UI Improvements -- It's pretty ugly.
- Crawl Map -- It's a new feature and is improving, but it's still not amazing.
February 13, 2019
Weird name, solid SEO tool.
I currently use Screaming Frog as one of the tools for managing and maintaining our company websites. I primarily use the program for doing SEO audits. I use it to verify links and find broken ones, identify content types and scripts, find duplicate content, and create XML sitemaps. Analyzing our sites allows us to detect potential SEO issues proactively and make educated decisions about site content.
- Finds broken links (404 pages). Broken links hurt user experience.
- Identifies pages that include meta directives like nofollow/noindex/canonical etc. Helps understand what your pages tell crawlers to do.
- Get information about all of the internal and external links on my site (anchor text, links per page, etc). Helps in identifying key word choices and page weight.
- 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.
December 21, 2018
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is #1 for Technical SEO Analysis
We use Screaming Frog SEO Spider to perform SEO audits for current and prospective clients. It allows us to get an all-encompassing view of the technical SEO elements of a website. I currently use only use the free version, as I find the cost prohibitive for what I use it for.
- Analyzes all metadata
- Character counts of all metadata
- identifies missing alt text on all images
- identifies all H1 and H2 headlines
- identifies broken links and loops
- The GUI is a little old school
- No cloud version is available...desktop version only (Chromebooks are SOL)
- Pricing isn't terrible...but there is no monthly option. £149.00 or roughly $190USD/yr.
November 30, 2018
The best tool to have in your pocket, hands down.
Screaming Frog is a standard tool of operation since I introduced it a couple years ago. We use it to perform crawls of sites that we are auditing for SEO, crawls of sites we have built to check for errors, both in staging and development. The project management team now uses it to QA certain implementations of tags, or other aspects on the site.
- Best tool to crawl a site, hands down.
- Configurable for custom data extractions.
- In-depth exports for reporting.
- Configurable connections to Analytics and Search Console.
- Wealth of online documentation.
- Exporting one report at time to CSV or XSLX can be cumbersome and time consuming.
- Custom extraction requires pretty in-depth knowledge of RegEx or XPath.
- Not a very visual tool.
- Larges sites can take up a tremendous amount of resources (RAM, space, connection).
August 21, 2018
The backbone of my SEO auditing toolset!
Screaming Frog is used primarily by the account management department, however it is also used occasionally by members of the business development and/or research teams. All who use it do so as part of technical SEO audits for clients. It can specifically help us identify crawling issues, indexation issues, necessary meta data changes, etc.
- 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.
- I sometimes feel that it takes a lot of CPU power to do more basic audits. I've heard that others use tools like DeepCrawl for very large sites for this reason.
- Lately, I've been having some small issues with the search function, though in the past this has worked great so it could just be a bug. Dan and the team seem to be great at addressing these quickly!
- I'd like the ability to identify URLs which exist in an XML sitemap but are not linked to within a site's taxonomy. Currently the comparison between these two lists has to be done manually, as far as I know.
November 17, 2018
Screaming Frog is The Tool Every Web Dev Needs
We use Screaming Frog as a fundamental piece of our SEO strategy. The tool empowers us to dive deeper into information we find in Google Analytics and Search Console. We use it to crawl our external sites, discover 301 redirect chains, check on SERPs, and run basic visualization reports. It is essential to our technical SEO tactics.
- Quickly crawling sites with thousands of pages.
- Fantastic customer support and support portal.
- Great UI, very intuitive and not flashy.
- Great visualizations.
- Great export option which can be helpful when sending to those without access to the tool.
- Updates too frequently and is sometimes unclear on what the update is for. Since I use this on my work desktop primarily, I have to go through our help desk to update. Which turns a quick process into a much more involved, time consuming endeavor.
- An integration with a CMS (Drupal or WordPress in particular) seems like a great next step.
- Entry level technical SEO is easy to do. More advanced tools and reports can be difficult to find.
I've been using Screaming Frog SEO Spider for about a year now.
The tool is great for running a speedy SEO audit of an entire domain.
We got value out of the paid subscription after migrating a site over to a new URL format. It was useful for pinpointing all broken links which needed redirection.
I'd recommend the tool for anyone looking to get a bird's-eye view of there site's technical SEO health. I'd say it's good to have a basic understanding of technical SEO when using the tool. If you don't, I'm sure there are blog posts and downloaded content provided by Screaming Frog to guide your efforts.
The tool is great for running a speedy SEO audit of an entire domain.
We got value out of the paid subscription after migrating a site over to a new URL format. It was useful for pinpointing all broken links which needed redirection.
I'd recommend the tool for anyone looking to get a bird's-eye view of there site's technical SEO health. I'd say it's good to have a basic understanding of technical SEO when using the tool. If you don't, I'm sure there are blog posts and downloaded content provided by Screaming Frog to guide your efforts.
- Site wide Technical SEO analysis
- Pinpointing broken links
- Providing text based on page SEO details
- Fast run time
- Exporting features. There are good exporting features available, but when trying to export detailed information, it's hard to retrieve.