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Screaming Frog

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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 …
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My favorite SEO Tool

10 out of 10
August 25, 2023
Screaming Frog is used as a tool for primary analysis of site behavior by our Search and Analytics Team. We use it to crawl sites, debug …
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Popular Features

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  • Integration with web analytics tools (32)
    10.0
    100%
  • Multi-domain support (28)
    10.0
    100%
  • Site audit / diagnostics (50)
    9.6
    96%
  • Global SEO (27)
    9.0
    90%

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Pricing

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Paid Version

$149.00

Cloud
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Screaming Frog SEO Spider Demo

YouTube
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Features

SEO

Core features related to search engine optimization

8
Avg 7.8

SEO Channels

Features related to optimizing your website for specific channels

7.9
Avg 7.6

SEO Platform & Account Management

Features related to scalability and integration of the SEO platform

10
Avg 8.4
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Product Details

What is Screaming Frog?

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Screaming Frog Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

(192)

Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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:

  1. The free version of the software is sufficient for making decisions and evaluating its usefulness.
  2. Purchasing the software is worth the money, as it provides comprehensive crawling capabilities.
  3. The software is recommended for companies of any size.
  4. It is suggested to try out the free version before committing to the premium subscription.
  5. The software is a great tool for finding 404 errors and checking meta data.
  6. Utilize the support documentation and forums for assistance.
  7. The software is great for internal SEO analysis and optimization.
  8. Try out the free version of the software.
  9. The software is recommended for crawling websites and gaining insights on content and keywords.
  10. Do not be intimidated by the technical aspects of the software and utilize available resources for guidance.
  11. 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

Joe Preston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
There are a lot of SEO's who won't be helped meaningfully by this tool, until they understand the technical aspect of SEO. It can actually help you write better SEO copy, but it is more likely to be of use to someone who makes $ diagnosing canoicalization and duplicate content issues. There are better solutions available if you are limited to slow machines or connections.

There are a lot of false positives for 400 and 500 errors, basically don't go nuts over a few empty title fields, check carefully.

Chris Coultas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Cole Watts | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a tool that is well suited, for scanning websites and for providing analysis of it. However, it is limited, to 100 URLs on the free version and it will not do the job or fix anything for you. It's simply a tool that helps you analyze data, you have to put the effort in to fix things.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is an industry standard for dedicated site crawlers. All other crawlers are going to be compared to Screaming Frog, and for good reason. Screaming Frog is great for doing a quick crawl of a small site, or if you only need to look at a section of a site.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you're an experienced SEO consultant and know what to look for - you'll find a lot of actionable insights in this software. A single site scan can result in days worth of actionable work in improving site structure, content, HTML tags, outbound links and more.

A beginner in the field of SEO may struggle a bit as they don't know the implications of many pieces of data (such as H1 tag use). It is assumed that the user understands these concepts.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It works well for any sized business, thanks to the variety of information that it uncovers for whatever URL you research. I like how it’s industry-agnostic and how it lets you research both your own site(s) as easily as competitor sites. I do wish there was an easy way to research multiple URLs (or at least two) to do some real competitive analysis.
Brynna Baldauf | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I would recommend Screaming Frog for anyone looking to crawl a large number of URLs or a small to medium size site. It does not handle large sites as well, as it runs out of memory, even with custom memory allocation. To crawl a large site I would recommend Xenu instead - you get less information but it can verify a larger number of URLs without running out of memory.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is especially helpful when analyzing the SEO of a particular website. We need to do this because when we are building clients new websites we don't want to miss any pages that could be hidden. Those pages could be important and this helps us streamline the website building process.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you’re trying to overhaul your website, redesign it, or improve SEO, and you don’t have the budget to work with an agency, Screaming Frog SEO Spider isn’t a “nice to have” — it’s a requirement. It’s time-saving and lets the users focus on analyzing data instead of spending countless hours pulling data and building audit spreadsheets from scratch.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is great for web development teams and SEO teams. For web development teams, Screaming Frog SEO Spider provides data that will become the basis of your content audit. For SEO teams, you can use the crawled data to analyze titles, meta descriptions and more in bulk, without visiting from page to page.
Scott Walker | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is a go-to tool for SEOs. If you're in charge of your company's SEO strategy and you aren't buying into one of the larger SaaS systems like Moz, then Screaming Frog is almost a necessary tool. Not only does it build your sitemap for you to host on the website and submit to the search engines, but it also allows you to find all the metadata like page titles and descriptions, discover broken links or non-navigable pages, and find all your current redirects.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is perfect for digital agencies and/or digital teams that need to perform technical SEO audits and crawl websites to identify the site URLs, duplicate content, robots directives and other technical information relevant to optimizing a website or launching a new website. If you are looking for a Moz-like SEO tool, this is not for you. This tool is really more of a crawling tool than it is an SEO tool.
Jeff Smith | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
If you are doing SEO audits, I think Screaming Frog is the best first-line tool for looking at a site. I have not found another tool that is capable of doing what Screaming From can in a very short amount of time. I do not use it for Looking at the technical side of a site, there are better tools for that. But for getting a feel for how well a site has been maintained as far as core on-site factors and being able to pull that data to build spreadsheets, SF is the best I have found.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
It is very useful for situations where you want to see all URLs on a site. It's very useful for when you're re-launching a website and need to gather all the URLs on the site. It's useful after launching a site to see if there are any broken 404ing URLs on the site. It's also useful for seeing if you're missing any titles, descriptions, etc. or if any meta data is duplicate. You can also filter results based on specific criteria, such as "show me all urls with titles that say _____". It's not useful for finding exactly where a 404ing URL is linked to on your site (at least, not to my knowledge).
Alyssa O'Mara | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is great when you know what you're looking for. If you don't understand meta information, status codes, reditects, canonicals and other technical aspects of a website, then it's not the tool for you. It won't have a popup that gives you guidance, it just gives you the data, in an organized fashion, so that you can do the research you need to optimize a website. If you are newer to SEO you either need to learn what all of these things are, or use another tool that will put the results into layman's terms.
Dragan Nikolic | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is a great starting point for any website audit. It gives you almost everything you need to know for improving your onsite SEO. If you have difficulties determining what slows down your progress or you suspect that there are some technical issues with your website, Screaming Frog is the software for you.

If you're suspecting that you've been a victim of a bad linkbuilding practice, then Screaming Frog won't help you, as it has no offsite data.
Tom Pick | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use this as part of every website audit process. It's ideal for functions like finding missing meta description tags,duplicate title tags, and other simple issues. It's also helpful that the tool shows word count for every page on the site to find pages with thin content that are bad from an SEO standpoint.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is fantastic for digging in for an SEO audit. It's the first thing I do when I start looking at a site—throw the domain in the Screaming Frog. Then I can export a few views and start sorting by status code, empty or duplicate metadata, canonicals, etc. Filtering the URLs allows me to get a good handle on the URL hierarchies. I can knock out a big chunk of the technical audit in a few steps with Screaming Frog!
November 07, 2019

Screaming Frog Review

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is a great lightweight tool for pulling quick reports and giving a great snapshot of how your site is performing from a health perspective. Lots of great features and does pretty much everything one would want from an SEO tool. The free version is really comprehensive and this tool should be in the roster of every SEO team.
Robbin Block | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Screaming Frog is the perfect tool for getting into the backend of a website. It's easy to use, at the right price point (the free version is robust), and it's always being updated, so you can rely on it to be current. It's suitable for anyone needing to optimize a website, doing competitive research, and exploring opportunities to help clients (and sell services to new ones).
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