About Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. It scans a site the way a search engine does and reports problems with links, titles, redirects and more.
What it does
The SEO Spider crawls a website and checks it for more than 300 SEO issues, warnings and opportunities. It finds broken links and server errors, lists redirect chains and loops, and flags page titles and meta descriptions that are missing, duplicated or too long. You can also collect custom data with XPath, CSS path or regex, and create XML sitemaps from a crawl.
Key features
- Broken link and server error detection
- Redirect chain and loop audits
- Page title and meta description checks
- Duplicate content and low content pages
- Custom data extraction with XPath or regex
- XML sitemap generation
Who it's for
SEO specialists, digital agencies and web developers who need to audit larger sites. It suits anyone who wants a site's technical health in one crawl report.
Pricing and good to know
The free version crawls up to 500 URLs. A paid licence is sold per year, and it removes that limit and unlocks advanced features. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux as a desktop application rather than in a browser.
Highlights
- Find broken links and server errors
- Audit redirect chains and loops
- Check page titles and meta descriptions
- Spot duplicate and low content pages
- Extract custom data with XPath or regex
