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Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Composite Score
8.9 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.9 /10

What is Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program which spiders websites'​ links, images, CSS, script and apps. It also fetches key onsite page elements for SEO, presents them in tabs by type and allows you to filter for common SEO issues, or slice & dice the data how you see fit by exporting/ importing into Excel. You can view, analyse and filter the information as it's gathered and updated continuously in the program's user interface.

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Awards & Recognition

Screaming Frog SEO Spider won the following awards in the Search Engine Optimization category

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

92 Likeliness to Recommend

99 Plan to Renew

88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+91 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Screaming Frog SEO Spider?

0% Negative
3% Neutral
97% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features
  • Performance Enhancing

Feature Ratings

Average 84

Auditing

90

On-Page Tracker/Optimization

87

Alerts

84

Content Optimization

84

Analytics and Reporting

84

Backlink Tools

81

Local SEO

80

Competition Analysis

80

Rank Tracking

79

Keyword Research

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

88

Business Value Created

88

Breadth of Features

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Implementation

83

Ease of Data Integration

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Ease of Customization

81

Ease of IT Administration

81

Availability and Quality of Training

77

Vendor Support

73

Screaming Frog SEO Spider Reviews

Shikher G.

  • Role: Consultant
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Aug 2024

Fantastic product for technical Site Auditing

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Screaming Frog SEO Spider from other similar products?

It supports custom data extraction using CSS Path, XPath, or regex and easily integrates with Google Analytics and Google Search Console for a complete and easy SEO analysis. These features are rearely found in SEO products.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Custom data extraction and Integration with GA and GSC.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Initially, it can be difficult to use due to the many customization options available.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Begin with the free version to explore its basic features and understand its capabilities.

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable

Aakash K.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jul 2024

Very easy to use.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Screaming Frog SEO Spider from other similar products?

SEO Spider offers detailed website crawling and comprehensive SEO audits with advanced features like JavaScript rendering and custom extraction.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It can audit my full website.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It audit each and every single piece of technical issue.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

You've to try thus for at least one.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Unique Features

KARAN V.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2026

A Powerful tool for deep technical SEO audits.

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Screaming Frog SEO Spider from other similar products?

What really makes Screaming Frog SEO Spider different for me is that it actually crawls websites like Google does, instead of just showing reports. I can see the real structure, errors, and issues page by page. It goes very deep into technical SEO. I can find things like redirect chains, broken links, duplicate content, and indexing issues in one place, which many all-in-one tools don’t show this clearly.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

My favourite part of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is how deeply it crawls a webiste and shows real issues page by page. It helps me quickly spot technical problems like broken links or redirects that are hard to find manually

What do you dislike most about this product?

What I dislike most about Screaming Frog SEO Spider is that it has a learning curve, especially if you’re not used to technical SEO. Since it runs on desktop, it can slow down my system when crawling large websites.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I’d recommend Screaming Frog SEO Spider if you want deep technical insights and are comfortable exploring data on your own. From my experience, it’s best for SEO professionals or anyone handling large websites, not complete beginners.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

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