The quest for exceptional app user experience is an ongoing challenge for many businesses and organizations. One of the most effective ways to achieve this goal is by optimizing your website's technical SEO using a powerful tool like Screaming Frog SEO Spider. This industry-leading website crawler is trusted by thousands of SEOs and agencies worldwide, and it's packed with features that can help you identify over 300 SEO issues, warnings, and opportunities to improve your website's health and user experience.

What Can You Do with the SEO Spider Tool?

With Screaming Frog SEO Spider, you can:

  • Identify broken links (404s) and server errors, and bulk export them for fixing or sending to a developer
  • Audit redirects, including temporary and permanent ones, and identify redirect chains and loops
  • Discover duplicate content, including exact duplicates with an md5 algorithmic check, partially duplicated elements like page titles, descriptions, or headings, and low-content pages
  • Extract data using CSS Path, XPath, or regex, which can include social meta tags, additional headings, prices, SKUs, or more!
  • Review robots.txt, meta robots, or X-Robots-Tag directives, as well as canonicals and rel=“next” and rel=“prev”
  • Generate XML sitemaps with advanced configuration over URLs to include, last modified, priority, and change frequency
  • Integrate with Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights APIs for greater insight into user behavior and performance data

Unlocking the Power of Screaming Frog SEO Spider

This powerful tool offers a range of features that can help you improve your website's technical SEO, including:

  • Crawling JavaScript websites using the integrated Chromium WRS
  • Visualizing site architecture with interactive crawl and directory force-directed diagrams and tree graph site visualizations
  • Scheduling audits to run at chosen intervals and auto-exporting crawl data to any location, including Google Sheets
  • Comparing crawls and staging environments using advanced URL mapping

Pricing and Features

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider offers both free and paid versions. The free version includes many of the same features as the paid version, but with a few limitations, such as a crawl limit of 500 URLs.

The paid version, priced at £199 per year, removes the URL limit and provides access to advanced features like:

  • Crawl comparison
  • Near duplicate content detection
  • Custom robots.txt management
  • Mobile usability testing
  • AMP crawling and validation
  • Structured data and validation
  • Spelling and grammar checks
  • Custom source code search and extraction
  • Custom JavaScript rendering
  • Crawl with OpenAI and Gemini

What the Experts Say

"I use Screaming Frog SEO Spider every single day. It's incredibly feature-rich, rapidly improving, and I regularly find a new use case." - Mike King, Founder, iPullRank

"The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is my 'go-to' tool for initial SEO audits and quick validations: powerful, flexible, and low-cost. I couldn't recommend it more." - Aleyda Solis, Owner, Orainti