Simple and powerful crawler for websites
Updated June 20, 2019
Simple and powerful crawler for websites
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
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.
Pros
- 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
Cons
- 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
- We speed up the process of analyzing a client's website
- We create an internal structure map of the website with just one click
- Reports with different errors help make quick fixes
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.
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