Screaming Frog SEO Spider

4.9 (132)
Write a Review!
Search engine optimization (SEO) software

About Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a search engine optimization (SEO) software that helps businesses create site visualizations, conduct spell checks, generate XML sitemaps, and more from within a unified platform. It enables staff members to crawl websites to identify broken links and server errors.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider allows team members to access and view URLs blocked by X-Robots-Tag, meta robots, and robots.txt. It lets employees analyze and identify short, missing, or long page titles and meta descriptions. With the md5 algorithmic check tool, professionals can discover duplicate elements, such as descriptions, page titles, or headings. It also enables supervisors to utilize XPath to extract social meta tags, prices, SKUs, and additional headings from the HTML of multiple web pages.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider allows organizations to integrate the platform with several third-party solutions, such as Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, and Search Console. Administrators can schedule audits and export crawl data to multiple locations, including Google Sheets.


Images

Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider crawl analytics
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider tree diagram
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider internal links
View 3 more
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider crawl analytics
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider tree diagram
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software - Screaming Frog SEO Spider internal links

Not sure about Screaming Frog SEO Spider? Compare with a popular alternative

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

4.9 (132)
VS.
Highly reviewed

Starting Price

US$259.00
year
US$299.00
year

Pricing Options

Free version
Free trial
Free version
Free trial

Features

16
45

Integrations

2
3

Ease of Use

4.3 (132)
4.3 (378)

Value for Money

4.7 (132)
4.5 (378)

Customer Service

4.5 (132)
4.4 (378)
Green rating bars show the winning product based on the average rating and number of reviews.

Alternatives

SEO PowerSuite

4.5
#1 Alternative to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
SEO PowerSuite is a complete set of desktop web optimization tools for SEOs, bloggers and online marketers. The bundle...

Oncrawl

3.8
#2 Alternative to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Oncrawl is a cloud-based technical SEO data platform for analyzing competitive websites. It collects and processes...

Lumar

4.3
#3 Alternative to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Lumar is a website intelligence platform that helps marketers, digital agencies, and businesses analyze, monitor,...

Ahrefs

4.7
#4 Alternative to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Ahrefs is an all-in-one SEO toolset that helps you rank higher and get more traffic.

Reviews

Overall rating

4.9 /5
(132)
Value for Money
4.7/5
Features
4.8/5
Ease of Use
4.3/5
Customer Support
4.5/5

Already have Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.

Showing 5 reviews of 132
Lauren
Lauren
Overall rating
  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great content audit and inventory tool

Reviewed on 2023/08/16

Overall, Screaming Frog helps me a lot in analyzing client websites and identifying top issues to...

Overall, Screaming Frog helps me a lot in analyzing client websites and identifying top issues to solve. I can better understand a site's structure, SEO health, and usability status, which informs how I will approach a project to be the most successful.

Pros

I love that I can get a birds-eye view of a website's page structure. I can easily export the site pages into a spreadsheet for performance content inventories. I also love that the tool calls out the greatest issues, such as duplicate headings or meta descriptions and readability issues. This saves me a lot of time on client work.

Cons

I wish it was easier to crawl websites that are login-protected. I know this is something Screaming Frog can't control, but it would be nice to have slightly more informative help articles that walk us through what do in this scenario. I also find configuration of the tool difficult sometimes. I've had coworkers whose Screaming Frog stops crawling websites correctly, and we often have to troubleshoot for a while to figure out why.

Nirav
Overall rating
  • Industry: Publishing
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The Best Crawler For SEO Technical Audit!

Reviewed on 2022/01/19

The Screaming Frog crawler has been the backbone of our company's technical SEO audit. Not only do...

The Screaming Frog crawler has been the backbone of our company's technical SEO audit. Not only do we do technical SEO audits but we also use the tool while doing website migration.

Pros

I can endlessly write about the pros of Screaming Frog. Here are a few:
1. For enterprise-level websites, you will never know which links are working and which have been dead (5xx/4xx). This crawler can help you identify all the dead links on your website. When I say dead links I mean links that are 3xx or 4xx.
2. You can easily fetch data for the number of internal links that each of your web pages is receiving. The more the number of internal links the more SEO value a page gets. Based on this data, you can easily alter your web architecture to pass the maximum number of internal links to your key landing page.
3. You can check all the images which has missing alt tags
4. You can find duplicate content pages on your website
5. You can check pages with missing meta title and description
6. You can check pages with duplicate meta title and description

Cons

1. The max crawl speed available is 20 URLs/s which can be increased
2. They should also provide hosting platforms to run the crawler or introduce a web-based solution

Verified Reviewer
Overall rating
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

I identified over 800 errors that I didn't know about in my ecommerce

Reviewed on 2021/12/28

Pros

using Screaming Frog SEO Spider I identified more than 800 errors that I didn't know in my ecommerce, this made me significantly increase my revenue

I use the tool to detect SEO errors on several clients

Cons

It identifies all the errors, and sometimes there are many, a feature that sets urgency levels for the problems would make me happier

Fabio
Overall rating
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A crawling tool that every SEO should use

Reviewed on 2020/07/21

Pros

Screaming Frog is the tool that allows you to evaluate your website as if you were the Google spider, that is, it is a crawler that allows you to evaluate each and every technical component at the SEO level.

Cons

The tool at a general level is incredible, it is important to configure correctly according to the specific need you have, two winners of all the options you have:

Connections to Google Analytics apis, Google Search Console and Ahrefs.
Information architecture viewer.

Alternatives Considered

Sitebulb and Oncrawl

Reasons for Switching to Screaming Frog SEO Spider

At the beginning price, with the time I have been trying the above mentioned and although I use them, I don't do it with the same frequency as with the frog
Brett
Overall rating
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Technical SEO at your fingertips

Reviewed on 2021/09/01

Screaming Frog helps me quickly identifying website issues that are typically red flags for...

Screaming Frog helps me quickly identifying website issues that are typically red flags for clients, allowing fast improvement while running triage on future items identified from the site crawl.

Pros

I needed to pull real-time crawls of extensive client sites. The free plan allows 500 URL's, which is a good start for small sites, but the Unlimited access from a paid plan is essential for any mid-size or enterprise sites.

Easy data export into CSV for documentation or graphical manipulation. Super simple interface and navigation that isn't bloated with design complexity.

Cons

Some data fields could have include a better description of what they are pulling for values. A simple question-mark adjacent to the field would help, rather than having to hunt down documentation on their site.

The user-interface hasn't been updated in ... well, ever. That could be improved, though I like the simple aesthetic, which I'm sure helps the application run quickly.

Alternatives Considered

Semrush

Reasons for Switching to Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Raw data easily exported. Quick crawls without a limit.
Showing 5 reviews of 132 Read all reviews

Screaming Frog SEO Spider FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Screaming Frog SEO Spider.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$259.00/year
  • Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
  • Free Trial: Not Available

Screaming Frog SEO Spider has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500

Screaming Frog SEO Spider supports the following languages:

English

Screaming Frog SEO Spider supports the following devices:

Screaming Frog SEO Spider integrates with the following applications:

Google Analytics 360, Google Search Console

Screaming Frog SEO Spider offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support

Related categories

See all software categories found for Screaming Frog SEO Spider.