What is Screaming Frog SEO Spider?
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an industry-leading desktop program that crawls websites' links, images, CSS, script, and apps to evaluate onsite SEO. It provides a comprehensive analysis, allowing users to identify and resolve technical SEO issues efficiently.
This tool is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Users can download it for free to crawl up to 500 URLs. A paid license unlocks unlimited crawling and advanced features such as crawl configuration, JavaScript rendering, and integration with Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights.
Features
- Find Broken Links, Errors & Redirects: Identifies broken links, server errors, and redirect chains.
- Analyse Page Titles & Meta Data: Evaluates page titles and meta descriptions for optimization.
- Review Meta Robots & Directives: Checks robots.txt, meta robots, and X-Robots-Tag directives.
- Audit hreflang Attributes: Validates hreflang implementation for international SEO.
- Discover Exact Duplicate Pages: Finds exact duplicate pages with MD5 checksums.
- Generate XML Sitemaps: Creates XML Sitemaps and Images XML Sitemaps.
- Site Visualisations: Generates interactive crawl and directory tree graph visualizations.
- JavaScript Rendering: Crawls websites that rely heavily on JavaScript.
- Crawl Comparison: Compares crawls to identify changes and issues over time.
- Custom Extraction: Scrapes data from web pages using XPath, CSS Path, or regex.
- Google Analytics Integration: Connects to Google Analytics to pull in user and performance data.
- Search Console Integration: Connects with Google Search Console for insights.
- PageSpeed Insights Integration: Integrates PageSpeed Insights data for performance analysis.
Use Cases
- Technical SEO audits
- Website migration analysis
- Content inventory and auditing
- Identifying crawl errors
- Analyzing internal and external linking
- Validating structured data
- Checking website security
- Competitor analysis
FAQs
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What is the crawl limit for the free version?
The free version allows you to crawl up to 500 URLs. -
What operating systems are supported?
The SEO Spider supports Windows, macOS, and Linux. -
Are bulk discounts offered?
Discounts are provided for purchases of 5 or more licenses. -
How do I send you debug logs for a Support Ticket?
Open the SEO Spider, click on 'Help' and 'Debug' in the menu, click the 'Save Logs' button, and send the logs to support@screamingfrog.co.uk.
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