Screaming Frog is The Tool Every Web Dev Needs
November 18, 2018
Screaming Frog is The Tool Every Web Dev Needs
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
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.
Pros
- 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.
Cons
- 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.
- Screaming Frog is cheap, especially when considered at the enterprise level.
- Speeds up the process of analyzing websites
- Provides more actionable data than alternatives (even the free version)
Google Search Console is web-based and free. It is slow and has inaccurate data. Screaming Frog provides deeper technical data, which as a technical marketer, is necessary. Although, to be clear, users should use Google Search Console and Screaming Frog in conjunction with one another. They support each other in unique ways.
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