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Kevin

Marketing and Advertising, 11 - 50 employees

Used unspecified

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed February 2024

I cant do my job without it

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Rohit

Verified reviewer

Internet, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2023

Best Tool for Technical SEO Audit

Overall I am very satisfied with Screaming Frog. From the day I started using Screaming Frog, I have been able to solve many more technical issues on my projects.

PROS

The best thing I like about screaming frog is its ease of use and speed. It gives a lot of technical SEO issues with all the details and their solution as well. Many of those issues other tools cannot detect, like HSTS security issues and more. For me, it's a must-have tool for a technical SEO audit.

CONS

Sometimes it does not reflect the changes even if the problem is solved on the website. Due to that, I had to re-run the tool multiple times. It happens frequently.

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Mia

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2023

Best Tool for Technical SEO Audit

PROS

Screaming Frog gives end-to-end technical SEO suggestions and errors in One Dashboard. Errors like Crawl errors, internal link errors, broken links, meta characters length, alt attributes can able to fix with the help of Screaming Frog.

CONS

Its Good For Technical Seo but we have to look for another tool for Keyword Research, competitor analysis, and backlink. it would be great if they include other SEO tools

Reasons for switching to Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Fewer Options not having the option to do keyword research, backlinks audits

Elle

Design, 2-10 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

A big leap of faith if paying

Although it surpasses its competitors in terms of the amount of information displayed, I don0t like having to start from scratch, or for it to crawl what it shouldn't - which puts you over the 500 url limit... even on a small site.

PROS

There are so many features - most of which are available in the free version

CONS

As far as I could see - there was no way to only crawl the links I provide. I could also not locate a way to save the progress to check on another day, meaning I have to start from scratch every time. This, however, wouldn't be an issue in the paid version as far as I can see

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

I went with SheerSEO instead after testing the free versions of each.

Brett

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2021

Technical SEO at your fingertips

Screaming Frog helps me quickly identifying website issues that are typically red flags for clients, allowing fast improvement while running triage on future items identified from the site crawl.

PROS

I needed to pull real-time crawls of extensive client sites. The free plan allows 500 URL's, which is a good start for small sites, but the Unlimited access from a paid plan is essential for any mid-size or enterprise sites. Easy data export into CSV for documentation or graphical manipulation. Super simple interface and navigation that isn't bloated with design complexity.

CONS

Some data fields could have include a better description of what they are pulling for values. A simple question-mark adjacent to the field would help, rather than having to hunt down documentation on their site. The user-interface hasn't been updated in ... well, ever. That could be improved, though I like the simple aesthetic, which I'm sure helps the application run quickly.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Raw data easily exported. Quick crawls without a limit.

Tanya

Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2020

Great Value in this Tool for My SEO Process

I have found the tools inside of Screaming Frog to be extremely powerful and easy to use in order to gain an understanding of my clients' websites. The crawls allow me to gain insight rather quickly to find weaknesses in a website so that I can address the problems and ultimately help my clients to improve their technical and on-site SEO issues.

PROS

I like how easy it is to get the comprehensive reporting done very quickly with clear action items to improve my website.

CONS

I would like more functionality and formal reporting that I can show to my client instead of having to create the reports myself from the crawls.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

I had heard great reviews about Screaming Frog and decided to make a change because of better pricing and ease of use.

Matthew

Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

Great SEO audit tool

It has been great.For 99.9% of my clients, it works like a charm.I can uncover broken links and other SEO issues.It does a great job on the page speed.I love the API integrations.

PROS

It works great to uncover any potential SEO issues with a website.I have used it with large and small sites - works amazing. Clear reports.Easy to use.

CONS

It does not have the key word rank tracking and back link tracking that some of the more expensive tools have. No big deal.I wish it did local SEO

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

CheaperFasterI own the data and control it.

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Ferent

Verified reviewer

Building Materials, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2023

It's a great software for website optimization

It's a good software to use for website optimization. I link it because of its popularity and performance quality. Little adjustments can make this tool superb.

PROS

While this software lacks some advanced functionalities, however, it remains one of the top-notch website analysis and technical SEO tools that I've worked with. I like it because it's user-friendly and provides a comprehensive website analysis feature which provides a set of tools that collect data on various SEO aspects and helps for further fixing such as broken links, meta tags, duplicate contents, and others. This software is able to collect a large amount of data on the website including page titles, headings, URLs, meta descriptions, codes, and many more which easily get exported for further analysis. This provides a more effective and easy way to deal with performance-related issues the website might be experiencing. In addition to being very smart, it offers expanded customization settings that provide ease, convenience, and extra flexibility to configure the scrawl depth, ignore certain URLs, limit scrawl to just some specific sections on the website, and more. It's a great choice for website optimization and ultimately my number one recommendation.

CONS

The cost of getting a license can be very high, especially for small businesses with low or limited budgets. There is no direct support which could potentially be problematic in cases where the user needs urgent assistance. It still lacks some advanced functionalities compared to similar tools - but, it's not a great deal.

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Joe

Verified reviewer

Semiconductors, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Screaming Frog Is Not An App, It is my Partner

I use Screaming Frog for SEO but also use it for any number of miscellaneous content review tasks.

PROS

I like it that I can observe everything by URL with Screaming Frog including other SEO data

CONS

There are so many features, you forget and re-discover them

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Can't beat its versatility and flexibility, other crawl providers are slowly going away from the Swiss Army knife versatility of a web crawler.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

The only must have tool for an SEO

This is "the tool". Combine this with Search Console and Analytics and you have everything you need.

PROS

Being able to easily crawl a website and having everything handled for you with and obscene amount of customization options is incredible. It doesn't matter if you are a newbie of a pro, SF has you covered.

CONS

Sincerely, loving everything so far. The recent updates have been amazing.

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Lauren

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2023

Great content audit and inventory tool

Overall, Screaming Frog helps me a lot in analyzing client websites and identifying top issues to solve. I can better understand a site's structure, SEO health, and usability status, which informs how I will approach a project to be the most successful.

PROS

I love that I can get a birds-eye view of a website's page structure. I can easily export the site pages into a spreadsheet for performance content inventories. I also love that the tool calls out the greatest issues, such as duplicate headings or meta descriptions and readability issues. This saves me a lot of time on client work.

CONS

I wish it was easier to crawl websites that are login-protected. I know this is something Screaming Frog can't control, but it would be nice to have slightly more informative help articles that walk us through what do in this scenario. I also find configuration of the tool difficult sometimes. I've had coworkers whose Screaming Frog stops crawling websites correctly, and we often have to troubleshoot for a while to figure out why.

Shoaib

Pharmaceuticals, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2022

One of the best SEO tool in the market

The tool has provided great services to us for tracking all the backlinks, searching for new keywords, and conducting website and SEO audits. The tool is great as it installs within the computer unlike semrush or others.

PROS

It is very straightforward and provides great insights for backlinks, on-page SEOs and technical SEOs. Comes at a good price and offers great free features. Installs within the computer and gets you what you deserve.

CONS

Too many features gets the software a little complicated to start with. The learning curve is the only thing I would say is the dislike of the Screaming frog and its outdated UI.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Price

Reasons for switching to Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Features

Christopher

Package/Freight Delivery, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Great value, rock solid SEO tool

Overall the tool is excellent, great value for a crawler than is very intuitive and will produce a starting point for any SEO strategy. No rival tool really compares for that price point. Any SEO should strongly consider a purchase.

PROS

Screaming frog is extremely simple to use. Simply provide the URL to begin crawling from and the software will provide a full report of issues the website may be facing from meta data to errant redirects. The layout is simple to follow and the language used to title issues is very accessible.

CONS

The software is not ideally suited to very large websites (like ecommerce sites for example), the bigger the website the slower the crawl setting needs to be to avoid errors or pages not crawled, but this can be very slow to produce a report.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Price, was the biggest factor. Deepcrawl is far more expensive. Our site is small so screaming frog was ideal for that size.

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2019

The best crawling tool

It helps us a lot in SEO. Helping us to identify broken links, canonicals, meta descriptions and so on. A perfect tool with a simple job.

PROS

I think Screaming Frog is a most when it comes to SEO tools. I like that is easy to use, and you can crawl all the URLs of your website and the competition. Its free version works perfectly. Also, the customer support center is awesome

CONS

Maybe doesn't have the greatest design. And if you dont know SEO well maybe it can be confusing. It will help if they have tutorials or an expert helping out

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

We end up buying both tools

Scott

Entertainment, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2021

Hands down best crawler for small to moderate SEO checks

Screaming Frog SEO Spider has helped me quickly find all kinds of SEO issues on websites and when checking sitemaps. I also use it to crawl lists of backlink targets and other URL lists for various reasons. It is an indispensable SEO tool.

PROS

This tool has defined the SEO crawler space for me and many SEOs that I have worked with. Even so-called enterprise crawlers have a lot to learn from the number of and quality of reports. Whenever I look at other crawlers that can handle huge websites, I compare their reporting to Screaming Frog SEO spider.

CONS

What I like least is that it does use my local computer's resources and slows my other work. I am willing to deal with this on smaller and moderate projects that can be crawled in a day.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

The reporting from other products does not compare except in the case of DeepCrawl, which is quite costly.

Moh

Writing and Editing, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

My experience with Screaming Frog

Overall Screaming Frog Seo spider is good to use and i suggest to the marker to use it.

PROS

So, there is many things that i personaly like to use in screaming frog seo spider, one of then is finding broken URLs and Image Alt text, this is the only tool in my experience that shows CSS, JavaScript, ahref and every type of broken link in the website. Also we can extract the list of URL into excel that makes works more easy.

CONS

As such my bad experience with screaming frog seo spider is that the tool is not on cloud. I keed to install it's software in my system that makes work very hard, as sometimes while auditing the website system got hanged and due to which my audit skip, there many other problems that i am facing with the software.

Dee

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2019

My favourite SEO tool!

Would 100% recommend for digitial marketing agencies.

PROS

Range of features - everything from canonicals to href lang. Relatively easy to use - the knowledge base online is great too! Ability to crawl development sites in the run up to a new website launch.

CONS

The tool looks a bit scary when you open it (not the most aesthetically pleasing) - but it's not an issue.

Shaikat

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

Best Technical SEO Audit Tool

A must-have tool for technical SEOs.

PROS

Screaming Frog is the best technical data crawling and audit tool for SEOs. You can crawl your website and check how's your website doing in terms of technical SEO standpoint. If you're a technical SEO, this is a must-have tool. The free version is adequate for getting started. In fact, if your website has less than 500 pages, you're good to go with the free version. If you want advanced functionality and own websites with thousands of pages, you should get the paid version, which is an excellent value for the price.

CONS

No complaints. It's a great tool for the price. And the free one is also good.

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Omar

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2019

The most powerful SEO tool for technical optimization

Couldn't do properly my SEO job without it. For a serious SEO, it is a must-have tool.

PROS

Lots of features, always updated with changes in SEO landscape. You can use it for scraping, find hard to see technical issues, runs faster and can manage very efficiently resources in your machine when you are processing big websites (over a million urls).

CONS

Some help on the software itself could be useful (actually all support and tutorials are on its website), and some visualizations options can take too much time to load.

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Heiko

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2019

Must-have Software for serious SEO

PROS

That you can crawl pretty fast your own but also competitor websites and get all the relevant on-site insights you need with just a few clicks. A short while ago they also added nice visualization features.

CONS

I really cannot say here anything negative, even if you reach out to them when you have a question they are super helpful. Maybe that it will take some time if you are new to the tool, to explore all the features they offer.

Mike

Non-Profit Organization Management, 501-1,000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

Must-Have Tool for SEO Audits!

I like how everything is organized inside the Screaming Frog app including each of the tabbed areas.

PROS

I love the many features that Screaming Frog offers but I especially like the Tree Graphs under Visualisations where I can quickly show my supervisor a snapshot of all interlinked webpages.

CONS

I can connect accounts such as Google Analytics, Ahrefs, PageSpeed insights and Google Search Console but when I close the app, then reopen it, I have a reconnect those accounts. Not a big deal and it's easy to reconnect but would love to see those accounts stay connected.

Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider

I've heard great things about Screaming Frog and wanted to try it and glad I made the move which has been a huge time-savor for me.

Lindsey

Marketing and Advertising, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed June 2022

Screaming Spider

PROS

I liked the amount of data I was able to gather about my rankings in comparison to other companies in same space

CONS

It at first seemed a little daunting - I feel training is best

Aditya

Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2019

Easy to use crawling software

10/10 for screaming frog because of it's price and other features.

PROS

One of the best easy to use and fast crawler in the market along with site map creation, deep analysis and more.

CONS

There is only drawback with screaming frog is poor interface it can be tough for beginners to understand the interface.

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Nathan

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2021

Screaming Frog SEO Spider has hidden gems, just dig for them

Once you get the hang of it, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is definitely value for money. Find broken links, technical issues and so much more in one tool.

PROS

Although Screaming Frog SEO Spider looks dated when you open the interface, it works like a beast. Functionality that I didn't have in SEO Tools for Excel or other tools are here, so I've got what I need in all my tools with Screaming Frog in my toolkit.

CONS

The interface is really old fashioned. You can see it's a tool by developers, for developers. But if it works, it works. Right? Also, some functionality and settings are somewhat cumbersome.

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Ryan

Verified reviewer

Banking, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2022

Screaming Frog SEO Spider review

For what it offers and at the price that it's offered, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a great tool, specifically for smaller businesses that need SEO help without spending a lot of money on an SEO software.

PROS

When it comes to affordability and effectiveness, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a great option. There are so many great tools available for free.

CONS

The UI isn't great and is a bit outdated. It can be hard to navigate if you are new to the tool.

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