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- Integration with web analytics tools (32)10.0100%
- Multi-domain support (28)10.0100%
- Site audit / diagnostics (50)9.696%
- Global SEO (27)9.191%
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Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a versatile tool that has become indispensable for various user needs. Users appreciate its effectiveness in auditing client and internal websites, leading to business growth and improved site performance. It allows users to schedule automatic website crawls and receive the results via email, making it easier to identify regular technical issues without manual effort. The software offers a comprehensive solution for website audits and SEO analysis, streamlining operations and improving efficiency. It assists in identifying critical errors such as broken links, duplicate pages, and missing tags, facilitating website audits on a page level. Additionally, it helps users find pages that require attention and deep crawling for e-commerce sites. The software has garnered positive feedback from users who have found it easy to use, with a wide range of functionalities. It is highly recommended for digital marketing agencies and individuals conducting website audits.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experience with the software:
- The free version of the software is sufficient for making decisions and evaluating its usefulness.
- Purchasing the software is worth the money, as it provides comprehensive crawling capabilities.
- The software is recommended for companies of any size.
- It is suggested to try out the free version before committing to the premium subscription.
- The software is a great tool for finding 404 errors and checking meta data.
- Utilize the support documentation and forums for assistance.
- The software is great for internal SEO analysis and optimization.
- Try out the free version of the software.
- The software is recommended for crawling websites and gaining insights on content and keywords.
- Do not be intimidated by the technical aspects of the software and utilize available resources for guidance.
- The software is highly recommended for its cost-effectiveness and comprehensive website crawling capabilities.
Overall, users suggest taking advantage of the support documentation and forums provided by the software for assistance with any technical aspects and guidance.
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August 25, 2023
My favorite SEO Tool
Score 10 out of 10
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- Moz and scraoebox
I like that it's a desktop client actually. I like it that I can stop something myself, rather than have some bot out of my control tear into a web site, consuming all it's content.
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
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 to use in some ways, with a very friendly interface and some extras features that are useful. Ultimately price was the deciding factor though.
September 26, 2022
Screaming Frog, the Spider that Crawls Your Website
August 31, 2021
Screaming Frog is the industry standard
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 better looking visually, and provide a cleaner report if you need to present to your executive team.
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 Screaming Frog does not, particularly in the keyword research sphere.
May 19, 2021
Screaming for Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog cannot return specific metrics such as domain authority or majestic stats and often the number of linking domains is off, while Netpeak can return almost any metrics you would like to see. Screaming Frog is vastly more controllable and user friendly than custom spiders but does have limitations about what it can return. Screaming Frog allows you to enter URLs from different domains and crawl each one, where Link Sleuth is not able to do that (only spider a single domain). Xenu is better at crawling larger websites on a limited memory budget, but does not return as much information, or have as many customization options as Screaming Frog.
February 23, 2020
You’re aren’t a “real” SEO expert if you aren’t using ScreamingFrog
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.
January 23, 2020
Fast and accurate web crawler for SEO projects.
January 22, 2020
Big time-saver and makes technical SEO life so much easier!
January 18, 2020
Great free tool for small SEO budgets
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 it lives on your hard drive, you don't need to worry about site/server outages for a SaaS.
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.
January 16, 2020
This Frog Screams Digital Marketing Insights
A highly competent tool that leads in some areas and not in others.
January 08, 2020
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is no toad!
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 is in. The other tools require a bit more set up. With Screaming Frog, you can just open it and toss in a URL and crawl.
January 07, 2020
A thorough web crawler with helpful SEO and site info
- SE Ranking and Moz
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.
January 07, 2020
Screaming Frog is An Excellent Tool for SEO
December 30, 2019
Screaming Frog - A Go-to Technical SEO tool
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 more technical tool which can be configured to suit specific needs and crawl just the things you want it. They both run from your computer and you can configure Screaming Frog to crawl any website and pretend to be any search engine you want it to be. With Website Auditor, you have a set amount of options, but you can configure a proxy should you need one. These two tools complement each other and I wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either one over the other.
Screaming Frog is a more technical tool which can be configured to suit specific needs and crawl just the things you want it. They both run from your computer and you can configure Screaming Frog to crawl any website and pretend to be any search engine you want it to be. With Website Auditor, you have a set amount of options, but you can configure a proxy should you need one. These two tools complement each other and I wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either one over the other.
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 considerably more. For straight-up site crawling, Screaming Frog is fast, the output is simple to work with, and it's tough to beat.
November 08, 2019
Don't tell my clients how easy Screaming Frog makes my job!
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 solutions - but to be frank, that's my job. I know what I'm doing, so all I need is the data and the specifics of what's going on with the site - I like that Screaming Frog just gives me the raw goods and lets me draw my own insights and recs from it. Surely not everyone will agree with this - but I appreciate the tool not trying to hold my hand through my own job.
November 07, 2019
Screaming Frog Review
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 but Screaming Frog is a core component of our team.
October 25, 2019
A Fast and Easy Way to Explore SEO Opportunities on Any Website
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.
October 25, 2019
Site audits start here
October 15, 2019
SEO Spider — One Spider You Won't Want to Get Rid Of
SEMRush is a much more robust tool for SEO. It wouldn't necessarily be fair to compare the two since SEMRush has many other features. However, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is able to turn out a much quicker report on the website's URL structure and makes it perfect for getting quick work done in terms of redirects.
September 27, 2019
Helps us save time during local SEO projects
I have not used any similar tools to Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
June 20, 2019
Simple and powerful crawler for websites
We tried also Netpeak Spider. Good alternative to Screaming Frog. Right now we are comparing these two because Spider can do almost everything that Screaming Frog does. A huge plus for Screaming Spider is that it's very stable; we work with very big projects with it (10-20 millions of pages). Netpeak Spider was not stable enough.
February 13, 2019
Weird name, solid SEO tool.
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 single program purchase fee. Moz, like SEMRush, offers a comprehensive toolset that's helpful if your site gets increased visibility and improved search engine ranking. Moz can help optimize pages, identify SEO fixes, evaluate links, and research keywords. Screaming Frog is a tool specifically for generating sitemaps, discovering duplicate pages, auditing Hreflang attributes, analyzing meta directives, reviewing page titles and meta-data, plus finding broken links, errors, and redirects. It's essentially a free or single cost (pro) version of one of the tool sets offered by the aforementioned competitors.