


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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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
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+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?
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- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Reviews
Chris C.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Media
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted May 2025
The foundation of most SEO audits!
Likeliness to Recommend
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
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Pranoti H.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2025
Industry leading Crawler with customizations
Likeliness to Recommend
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
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- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2024
Great technical tool, a must for any SEO.
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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