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• Platforms Report an error

  “The industry leading website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux”

• Audit issue count Report an error

  “audits your site for over 300 SEO issues to help improve both SEO, and UX.”

• Free tier Report an error

  “Download & crawl 500 URLs for free”

• Paid price usd Report an error

  “buy a licence for $279 Per Year to remove the limit & access advanced features.”

• Paid price gbp Report an error

  “For just £199 per year you can purchase a licence, which removes the 500 URL crawl limit, allows you to save crawls, and opens up the spider’s configuration options and advanced features.”

• Licence term Report an error

  “Licences last 1 year. After that you will be required to renew your licence.”

• Free version restrictions Report an error

  “The free version is restricted to crawling up to 500 URLs in a single crawl. The crawl configuration, saving of crawls, and advanced features such as JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, and API integrations are also restricted.”

• Free no signup Report an error

  “The ‘lite’ version of the tool is free to download and use – without any sign up or email capture.”

• Broken links Report an error

  “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.”

• Redirect audit Report an error

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

• Meta data analysis Report an error

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

• Duplicate content Report an error

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

• Custom extraction Report an error

  “Collect any data from the HTML of a web page using CSS Path, XPath or regex.”

• Robots directives Report an error

  “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”.”

• Xml sitemap generation Report an error

  “Quickly create XML Sitemaps and Image XML Sitemaps, with advanced configuration over URLs to include, last modified, priority and change frequency.”

• API integrations Report an error

  “Connect to the Google Analytics, Search Console and PageSpeed Insights APIs and fetch user and performance data for all URLs in a crawl for greater insight.”

• Javascript rendering Report an error

  “Render web pages using the integrated Chromium WRS to crawl dynamic, JavaScript rich websites and frameworks, such as Angular, React and Vue.js.”

• Site visualisations Report an error

  “Evaluate internal linking and URL structure using interactive crawl and directory force-directed diagrams and tree graph site visualisations.”

• Scheduling Report an error

  “Schedule crawls to run at chosen intervals and auto export crawl data to any location, including Google Sheets. Or automate entirely via command line.”

• Crawl comparison Report an error

  “Track progress of SEO issues and opportunities and see what's changed between crawls. Compare staging against production environments using advanced URL Mapping.”

• Link metrics integration Report an error

  “Pull external link metrics from Majestic, Ahrefs and Moz APIs into a crawl to perform content audits or profile links.”

• AI integration Report an error

  “Set up custom AI prompts with OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama and Anthropic while crawling for insight.”

• Accessibility auditing Report an error

  “Use the open-source AXE accessibility rule set for automated accessibility validation to test against Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).”

• Structured data validation Report an error

  “Extract & validate structured data against Schema.org specifications and Google rich result features.”

• Spelling grammar Report an error

  “Spell & grammar check your website in over 25 different languages.”

• User agent Report an error

  “Crawl as a search bot such as Googlebot or Bingbot, AI crawlers, or your own custom UA.”

• Authentication Report an error

  “Forms Based Authentication”

• Segmentation Report an error

  “Segmentation”

• Looker studio reports Report an error

  “Set up automated Data Studio crawl reports to monitor site health and trends.”

• Custom javascript Report an error

  “Run custom JavaScript snippets while crawling, to extract data, trigger mouseover events, scroll a page or nearly anything else you’re able to do in the Chrome console.”

• Amp crawling Report an error

  “Crawl AMP URLs and validate them, using the official integrated AMP Validator.”

• Xml sitemap analysis Report an error

  “Crawl an XML Sitemap independently or part of a crawl, to find missing, non-indexable and orphan pages.”

• Mobile usability Report an error

  “Use Lighthouse to check for common mobile usability issues.”

• Hreflang audit Report an error

  “Audit missing return tags, inconsistent & incorrect languages codes, non-200 response hreflang and more.”

• Screenshots Report an error

  “Rendered Screen Shots – Fetch, view and analyse the rendered pages crawled.”

• Custom robots txt Report an error

  “Download, edit and test a site’s robots.txt using the new custom robots.txt.”

• Storage engine Report an error

  “It uses a configurable hybrid storage engine, able to save data to disk to crawl large websites.”

• Issue explanations Report an error

  “An in-app explanation of each issue and potential actions is provided. Each issue has a ‘type’ and an estimated ‘priority’ based upon the potential impact.”

• Export Report an error

  “The SEO Spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (URL, page title, meta description, headings etc) to a spread sheet, so it can easily be used as a base for SEO recommendations.”

• Free technical support Report an error

  “Free Technical Support”

• Entity Report an error

  “Screaming Frog Ltd 6 Greys Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 1RY. UK”

• Company registration Report an error

  “Company no. 07277243 / VAT no. 995 3157 78”

• Trial after download Report an error

  “Alternatively hit the ‘buy a licence’ button in the SEO Spider to buy a licence after trialing the software.”

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