Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler for technical and onsite SEO analysis. It crawls a site and reports URLs, response codes, redirects, page titles, meta descriptions, headings, canonicals, directives, images, structured data, links, and other audit signals. Licensed users can save crawls, crawl more than 500 URLs, connect supported analytics and search data, render JavaScript, and use advanced configuration and extraction features. The free edition is useful for small crawls but is limited to 500 URLs per crawl and restricts saving and advanced features.

✨ Key Features

• Website crawling — Crawl websites and inspect URL-level SEO data.
• Response-code analysis — Find redirects, broken links, client/server errors, and blocked resources.
• On-page auditing — Review titles, meta descriptions, headings, word counts, and duplicate content signals.
• Canonical and directive checks — Inspect canonicals, robots directives, hreflang, and indexability.
• XML sitemap analysis — Audit sitemap URLs and compare them with crawl findings.
• JavaScript rendering — Crawl rendered pages to inspect content and links produced by JavaScript.
• Custom extraction — Extract page elements with supported XPath, CSS Path, or regex workflows.
• Structured-data inspection — Review supported schema and structured-data issues.
• Image and link auditing — Find oversized images, missing alt text, and internal-link opportunities.
• Analytics and Search Console connections — Combine crawl data with supported traffic and search data.
• Crawl comparison and saving — Licensed users can save and compare crawls for ongoing audits.
• Custom configuration and exports — Configure crawl behavior and export audit data for analysis.

💳 Pricing

• Free — Free to use, with a maximum of 500 URLs per crawl and restrictions on saving crawls, advanced features, and configuration.
• Paid licence — As checked on 1 October 2026, the official GBP view lists GBP199/user/year for 1–4 licences. Each user needs a licence lasting one year, with renewal thereafter. It removes the 500-URL licence cap, but crawl size still depends on memory/storage; bulk discounts start at five licences.
• Support and VAT — Tax, VAT validation, and current pricing depend on the purchaser's location and billing details.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Technical SEO audit: Crawl a site and prioritize indexability and page-level issues.
• Migration QA: Check redirects, status codes, canonicals, and broken links during a migration.
• On-page inventory: Export titles, descriptions, headings, and word counts for optimization.
• JavaScript audit: Compare rendered content and links with the raw HTML crawl.
• International SEO: Inspect hreflang and related indexability signals.
• Sitemap validation: Compare XML sitemap coverage with crawled URLs.
• Content cleanup: Locate duplicates, thin pages, missing metadata, and orphan-like link gaps.
• Agency reporting: Save crawls, compare changes, and export evidence for clients.