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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.

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Anthony Daronzio | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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).
Screaming Frog is the best tool to crawl any site, anywhere, hands down. We use it for all of our SEO auditing purposes. We also use it to quality check new builds in both staging and live environments, some behind password restrictions and other various logins. Even our project management team has found use with it to quickly check changes across multiple pages instead of going to each page one by one. This tool is not the tool for you if you are looking for something to generate auditing reports. This will not will not make a pretty PDF of it's findings for you to show management or send to a client. It gives your raw data which you can export into a CSV or Excel, but will not help in the reporting process if you are looking for something to auto generate a report or insights.
SEO (4)
77.5%
7.8
Keyword analysis
60%
6.0
Page grader
70%
7.0
Competitive analysis
80%
8.0
Site audit / diagnostics
100%
10.0
SEO Channels
N/A
N/A
SEO Platform & Account Management (1)
100%
10.0
Integration with web analytics tools
100%
10.0
  • Allows for quick and easy business development audits, allowing us to generate net new income.
  • Saves us time in the SEO department, hours saved is money earned.
  • Saved a tremendous amount of time and resources across Dev and PM.
Screaming Frog is a desktop application that uses your own resources to crawl a site (Processing, RAM, Connection speed). Deep Crawl is a cloud-based crawler, and probably the best cloud based crawler out there. DeepCrawl can gather A LOT of data, but it becomes expensive. The larger the amount of pages you need to crawl and more projects you need open, the pricier it gets. If you know what you are looking at and don't need fancy charts and graphs, then Screaming Frog is the right tool for you over DeepCrawl.
6
SEO Department, SEM Department, Development and Project Management
2
The more intricate you get with the use case of Screaming Frog the bigger the skillset it takes to support it. Myself and my SEO Manager support internal use cases, sometimes knowledge of ReGex and XPath to do custom extraction.
  • SEO Auditing
  • Quality Assurance with Dev
  • Quality Assurance with Project Management
  • We have a wide range of development clients, we use the tool to check updates to sites that the dev makes through custom extraction. When the change affects many pages, this makes it considerably easier to check changes as opposed to hours spent going page by page.
  • For SEO auditing, I export my reports that I need from a site crawl and copy that data into a google sheet, I then use that sheet as a data source to visualize the data from the crawl. This allows us to easily create reports to clients.
  • Allowing for easier methods of custom extraction (intsead of writing regex or XPath) would allow us to bring this out to more users in the company.
  • Maybe an enhanced license to create PDFs of the stuff in the audits for use for our recurring audit program. This would allow the software to stay competitive from other tools such as SEMRush and DeepCrawl.
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.
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Third-party Reviews
Product Features is the most important selection from above. We need a tool that can be versatile and used across quite a few disciplines, and not just serve and SEO function. There are no other tools out there than can accomplish all that Screaming Frog has accomplished for us. We always look forward to any new features added in product updates.
I wouldn't change my mind. Screaming Frog is the best tool there is for us.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
  • Training others who did not know the software how to use it. It was rather time consuming.
If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue.
No
I have had very little issues with the software, most of which can be answered with the very extensive online documentation. However the few times I have had to ask for support, they have been nothing but helpful.
No
I have had standard actions for support, however this also classifies for support, when my company switched over to invoice billing and no longer used credit cards, I had to reach out to screaming frog for assistance. I was answered immediately and after a brief explanation of what I needed from them, it was sent over right away. I also had a problem because of wording on the invoice from my billing department. I emailed them back and it was changed very quickly and got back to my billing department without a lapse in the software usage.
  • A standard crawl is easy and can be accomplished by anyone
  • Connecting to outside APIs
  • Custom extraction is not easy to use without knowledge of RegEx (which I already knew) or XPath which I had to learn.
  • With reporting you have to export each report separately instead of one workbook created, with multiple sheets. This can get very cumbersome when you need a lot of the reporting, especially the SERP reporting.
  • For a beginner, it's hard to extrapolate the most important findings from your crawl.
  • Getting the report to visualized.
No
Easy for me to use because I have using the product for a long time and understand the ins and outs of it. If I was a newbie, I would be completely lost. It does take some prior knowledge to operate this software and understanding of what a crawl means.
James Egan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I currently use Screaming Frog to analyze technical SEO aspects of the business. The software is primarily used to ensure that the code (HTML, JS) is up to scratch and that page load times are not negatively influenced by poor coding.
  • A Fantastically quick crawl across all pages of the site
  • Very easy exports for interpretation of data, sometimes very large data sets
  • Very intuitive and easy to use
  • Ability to deep dive using Regex
  • While it is intuitive it could have a better GUI
  • The functionality is there, but having a WIZYWIG would be good for entry level users
  • The support level is somewhat lacking
If you are working as a consultant, then Screaming Frog is the perfect tool to get a project started. It will enable you to have a firm understanding of your clients' website from a technical point of view.
SEO (5)
82%
8.2
Backlink management
60%
6.0
SERP ranking tracking
90%
9.0
Page grader
70%
7.0
Site audit / diagnostics
100%
10.0
Site recommendations
90%
9.0
SEO Channels
N/A
N/A
SEO Platform & Account Management (1)
90%
9.0
Multi-domain support
90%
9.0
  • From an ROI point of view, it is without peer. Being able to run a crawl that quickly and have the results exported to a nice and easy Excel sheet is fantastic.
  • An analyst can have a field day, the amount of data that is there for you is amazing. If you have a plan before you run the crawl, you will not be disappointed.
  • As stated before, if you are a novice, the amount of data can be overwhelming.
I use Screaming Frog because it is a very powerful tool that is not prohibitively expensive. Moz is at the same price range but has lost some of its zing because they have upped the price for individual aspects. Buy a license from SF and that is it, done and dusted. I just wish that they had more white papers and instructions, this is where Moz has the upper hand. I love Ahrefs though
  • Basic Crawl
  • Export of reports
  • url return times
  • Regex
  • custom reporting
  • device type reporting
Yes, but I don't use it
It needs a more intuitive GUI. It just seems like it is built for a technical SEO specialist rather than a general user.
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