A thorough web crawler with helpful SEO and site info
January 07, 2020

A thorough web crawler with helpful SEO and site info

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider

It is used by the SEO department for crawling and website troubleshooting needs. It helps us see all URLs on a site. It helps us notice if there is missing or duplicative metadata. It helps identify 404s or other issues with URLs. It also helps generate an xml sitemap file.
  • Crawling an entire website
  • Gathering all URLs on the site
  • Telling you where a 404ing URL was found on the site
  • It crashes sometimes when you first open it
  • Helps launch websites
  • Helps post-launch tasks
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.
I haven't had to use support much, but they're generally fast with renewal stuff.

Do you think Screaming Frog SEO Spider delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Screaming Frog SEO Spider's feature set?

Yes

Did Screaming Frog SEO Spider live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Screaming Frog SEO Spider go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Screaming Frog SEO Spider again?

Yes

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).

Screaming Frog Feature Ratings

7.3
Keyword analysis
Not Rated
Backlink management
Not Rated
SERP ranking tracking
Not Rated
Page grader
Not Rated
Competitive analysis
7
Site audit / diagnostics
10
Site recommendations
5
Task management
Not Rated
Not Rated
Local SEO
Not Rated
Social SEO
Not Rated
Mobile SEO
Not Rated
Global SEO
Not Rated
Multi-domain support
Not Rated
Integration with web analytics tools
Not Rated