Overview
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler made by Screaming Frog, a UK search-marketing agency founded in 2010 and based in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.[13] It crawls a site the way a search engine does and reports technical issues, and is used for technical SEO audits.
The free version crawls up to 500 URLs and finds broken links, errors and redirects, analyses page titles and meta data, reviews meta robots directives, audits hreflang attributes, discovers exact duplicates, generates XML sitemaps and produces site visualisations.[12] A paid licence removes the 500-URL limit and unlocks crawl configuration, scheduling, saving crawls, crawling password-protected sites, JavaScript rendering, crawl comparison, near-duplicate content detection and semantic analysis.[12] A licence costs £199 per user per year, falling to £189, £179 and £169 for 5–9, 10–19 and 20+ licences.[11] Licences are per user.[11] The SEO Spider runs on the user’s own computer, so very large sites depend on available memory and storage, and it provides no keyword, backlink or rank data on its own; it is usually combined with a suite and with Search Console.
Screaming Frog features
- Broken link and redirect detection
- Title and meta analysis
- JavaScript rendering (paid)
- Scheduled crawls (paid)
- Near-duplicate and semantic analysis
- XML sitemap generation
- Technical SEO
- AI search optimisation
Screaming Frog pricing
Free up to 500 URLs. Licence £199 per user per year; £189 (5–9), £179 (10–19), £169 (20+).
Screaming Frog strengths and limitations
Strengths
- Free tier useful for small sites
- Low fixed annual price
- Deep technical crawl data
- JavaScript rendering
- Deep technical expertise
- Builds its own crawling software
Limitations
- Desktop only, limited by local hardware
- No keyword or backlink data
- Steep learning curve
- Per-user licensing
- Single UK base
- Fees not published
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