Screaming Frog Pro

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a website crawler that allows you to crawl websites’ URLs and fetch key elements to analyze and audit technical and onsite SEO.

Download for free, or purchase a license for additional advanced features.

The SEO Spider app is a powerful and flexible site crawler, crawling both small and huge websites efficiently while allowing you to analyze the results in real-time. It gathers key onsite data to allow SEOs to make informed decisions.

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1 What can you do with Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software?
2 Features and Highlights

What can you do with Screaming Frog SEO Spider Software?

Find Broken Links

Crawl a website instantly and find broken links (404s) and server errors. Bulk export the errors and source URLs to fix, or send to a developer.

Audit Redirects

Find temporary and permanent redirects, identify redirect chains and loops, or upload a list of URLs to audit in a site migration.

Analyse Page Titles & Meta Data

Analyze page titles and meta descriptions during a crawl and identify those that are too long, short, missing, or duplicated across your site.

Discover Duplicate Content

Discover exact duplicate URLs with an md5 algorithmic check, partially duplicated elements such as page titles, descriptions, or headings, and find low-content pages.

Extract Data with XPath

Collect any data from the HTML of a web page using CSS Path, XPath, or Regex. This might include social meta tags, additional headings, prices, SKUs, or more!

Review Robots & Directives

View URLs blocked by robots.txt, meta robots, or X-Robots-Tag directives such as ‘noindex’ or ‘nofollow’, as well as canonicals and rel=“next” and rel=“prev”.

Generate XML Sitemaps

With Screaming Frog you can quickly create XML Sitemaps and Image XML Sitemaps, with advanced configuration over URLs to include last modified, priority, and change frequency.

Integrate with Google Analytics

Connect to the Google Analytics API and fetch user data, such as sessions or bounce rate and conversions, goals, transactions, and revenue for landing pages against the crawl.

Crawl JavaScript Websites

Render web pages using the integrated Chromium WRS to crawl dynamic, JavaScript-rich websites and frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue.js.

Visualise Site Architecture

Evaluate internal linking and URL structure using the interactive crawl, directory force-directed diagrams, and tree graph site visualizations.

Features and Highlights

Find Broken Links, Errors & Redirects
Analyse Page Titles & Meta Data
Review Meta Robots & Directives
Audit hreflang Attributes
Discover Duplicate Pages
Generate XML Sitemaps
Site Visualisations
Crawl Limit
Scheduling
Crawl Configuration
Save Crawls & Re-Upload
Custom Source Code Search
Custom Extraction
Google Analytics Integration
Search Console Integration
Link Metrics Integration
Rendering (JavaScript)
Custom robots.txt
AMP Crawling & Validation
Structured Data & Validation
Store & View Raw & Rendered HTML

The Screaming Frog is an SEO auditing tool, built by real SEOs with thousands of users worldwide. A quick summary of some of the data collected in a crawl includes:

Errors – Client errors such as broken links & server errors (No responses, 4XX, 5XX).
Redirects – Permanent, temporary redirects (3XX responses) & JS redirects.
Blocked URLs – View & audit URLs disallowed by the robots.txt protocol.
Blocked Resources – View & audit blocked resources in rendering mode.
External Links – All external links and their status codes.
Protocol – Whether the URLs are secure (HTTPS) or insecure (HTTP).
URI Issues – Non-ASCII characters, underscores, uppercase characters, parameters, or long URLs.
Duplicate Pages – Hash value / MD5checksums algorithmic check for exact duplicate pages.
Page Titles – Missing, duplicate, over 65 characters, short, pixel width truncation, same as h1, or multiple.
Meta Description – Missing, duplicate, over 156 characters, short, pixel width truncation or multiple.
Meta Keywords – Mainly for reference, as Google, Bing, or Yahoo do not use them.
File Size – Size of URLs & images.
Response Time.
Last-Modified Header.
Page (Crawl) Depth.
Word Count.
H1 – Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple.
H2 – Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple.
Meta Robots – Index, noindex, follow, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir, etc.
Meta Refresh – Including target page and time delay.
Canonical link element & canonical HTTP headers.
X-Robots-Tag.
Pagination – rel=“next” and rel=“prev”.
Follow & Nofollow – At page and link level (true/false).
Redirect Chains – Discover redirect chains and loops.
hreflang Attributes – Audit missing confirmation links, inconsistent & incorrect language codes, noncanonical hreflang, and more.
AJAX – Select to obey Google’s now deprecated AJAX Crawling Scheme.
Rendering – Crawl JavaScript frameworks like AngularJS and React, by crawling the rendered HTML after executing JavaScript.
Inlinks – All pages link to a URI.
Outlinks – All pages a URI links out to.
Anchor Text – All link text. Alt text from images with links.
Images – All URIs with the image link & all images from a given page. Images over 100kb, missing alt text, alt text over 100 characters.
User-Agent Switcher – Crawl as Googlebot, Bingbot, Yahoo! Slurp, mobile user-agents, or custom UA.
Custom HTTP Headers – Supply any header value in a request, from Accept-Language to cookie.
Custom Source Code Search – Find anything you want in the source code of a website! Whether that’s Google Analytics code, specific text, or code.
Custom Extraction – Scrape any data from the HTML of a URL using XPath, CSS Path selectors, or regex.
Google Analytics Integration – Connect to the Google Analytics API and pull in user and conversion data directly during a crawl.
Google Search Console Integration – Connect to the Google Search Analytics API and collect impression, click, and average position data against URLs.
External Link Metrics – Pull external link metrics from Majestic, Ahrefs, and Moz APIs into a crawl to perform content audits or profile links.
XML Sitemap Generation – Create an XML sitemap and an image sitemap using the SEO spider.
Custom robots.txt – Download, edit, and test a site’s robots.txt using the new custom robots.txt.
Rendered Screen Shots – Fetch, view, and analyze the generated pages crawled.
Store & View HTML & Rendered HTML – Essential for analyzing the DOM.
AMP Crawling & Validation – Crawl AMP URLs and validate them using the official integrated AMP Validator.
XML Sitemap Analysis – Crawl an XML Sitemap independently or as part of a crawl to find missing, non-indexable, and orphan pages.
Visualizations – Analyse the website’s internal linking and URL structure using the crawl and directory tree force-directed diagrams and tree graphs.
Structured Data & Validation – Extract & validate structured data against Schema.org specifications and Google search features.