Screaming Frog
Description
Key Applications
- Website Crawling & Technical SEO Audit: Systematically crawls websites to identify critical technical issues like broken links, duplicate content, incorrect redirects, and missing meta data.
- Data Extraction for SEO: Scrapes key on-page elements (titles, meta descriptions, H1s) and custom data (via XPath) from web pages at scale for analysis and reporting.
- Log File Analysis & Integration: Imports and analyzes server log files to understand how search engine bots are crawling a site and identify potential crawl budget issues.
- Specific Workflow: An SEO specialist crawls a large e-commerce site to generate a list of all 404 errors and pages with missing H1 tags, then exports the data to a spreadsheet for prioritization and action.
Who It’s For
Pros & Cons
How It Compares
- Versus Sitebulb: Screaming Frog wins on speed, lower resource usage, and a more flexible, spreadsheet-like interface for power users, whereas Sitebulb offers more visualization and automated interpretation of findings for less technical users.
- Versus SEMrush/Ahrefs Site Audit: It differentiates by being a desktop tool that provides raw, unfiltered access to crawl data without sampling, allowing for custom configuration and extraction that cloud-based tools limit.
- Versus manual checking: Its competitive advantage is immense scale and automation, completing in minutes an audit that would take hundreds of manual hours, with greater accuracy.
Bullet Point Features
- Deep website crawler (URL, HTML, CSS, JS)
- Custom data extraction via XPath and regex
- Integration with Google Analytics & Search Console APIs
- Log file analyzer and correlation with crawl data
- Bulk export of audit data to Excel/Google Sheets
Frequently Asked Questions
Find quick answers about this tool’s features, usage ,Compares, and support to get started with confidence.
Screaming Frog can detect broken links, redirect chains, missing meta tags, duplicate pages, crawl depth issues, and indexability problems across a website.
Yes. It’s especially powerful for large and complex websites, as it can crawl thousands of URLs quickly and export detailed SEO audit data.
Absolutely. It helps identify missing or duplicate titles, meta descriptions, heading structure issues, and thin content, making on-page optimization easier.
Basic SEO users can run standard crawls easily, but advanced features like JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, and regex filters benefit from technical SEO knowledge.
Because it provides deep technical insights, fast crawling, customizable audits, and exportable reports, making it a go-to tool for professional SEO audits.
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Disclosure
Reviews from Our Users
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"Overall, I like the core features, but the mobile UI still feels a bit clunky. Hope they fix this in future updates."
"Their support team actually listens to feedback! I’ve seen new features added within weeks. That’s impressive.''
"Some advanced options take a bit of time to understand, but once you get the hang of it, it’s incredibly powerful."
"I’ve tried several similar tools, but this one stands out for its clean interface and automation features. Totally worth the subscription."
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