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Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Composite Score
8.8 /10
CX Score
9.1 /10
Category
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.8 /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

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89 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.

+90 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
4% Neutral
96% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Auditing

92

On-Page Tracker/Optimization

87

Alerts

82

Analytics and Reporting

82

Content Optimization

82

Competition Analysis

79

Backlink Tools

79

Rank Tracking

78

Local SEO

77

Keyword Research

75

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Quality of Features

88

Business Value Created

87

Breadth of Features

85

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

83

Ease of Implementation

83

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Ease of Data Integration

81

Ease of IT Administration

79

Ease of Customization

79

Availability and Quality of Training

78

Vendor Support

74

Screaming Frog SEO Spider Reviews

Chris C.

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

Submitted May 2025

The foundation of most SEO audits!

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Screaming Frog SEO Spider from other similar products?

Screaming frog is different for from other website crawlers in 2 primary ways. First it operates as a piece of software (others are mostly online tools), so generally if connection is lost it can carry on when it's restablished without losing data. Secondly, it has far more granular crawl control. This means you can choose settings that crawl for specific factors, even as far as looking in the copy for specific words used.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I like how quick screaming frog is. Being a tool installed on your pc/Mac, it also means it can crawl while you carry on with other online tasks and largely doesn't effect your browsing experience either.

What do you dislike most about this product?

It can at times be a bit obtuse, requiring you to look up how it's functions work on the website. It's not particularly forgiving in that way

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

It works for free up to 500 URLs, if you have a small site - give it a try!

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Pranoti H.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Consulting
  • Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Apr 2025

Industry leading Crawler with customizations

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Screaming Frog SEO Spider from other similar products?

Screaming frog stands apart thanks to its desktop-based architecture that delivers lightning-fast crawls at any scale - without throttling or cloud-queue delays. Its real power lies in granular control, you can apply regex filters, configure custom XPath and CSS extractions, and seamlessly integrate API metrics directly into the crawl.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

The unmatched customization of crawl configurations: from regex-based URL filters and custom XPath/CSS extractions to API metric integrations, I can tailor every audit to my exact needs without wrangling data in spreadsheets afterward.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Its desktop dependency means large crawls can tie my workstation resources, there's no native cloud-based option for offloading heavy jobs, so I sometimes hit local memory limiits on sites with hundreds of thousands of URLs.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Be prepared to invest time upfront in learning its advanced settings - dive into the documentation on custom extractions and rendering.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Insurance
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Anonymous Reviewer

Submitted Dec 2024

Great technical tool, a must for any SEO.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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