The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a powerful and versatile website crawler designed to help SEO professionals improve onsite SEO. It efficiently crawls both small and large websites, providing real-time analysis of key onsite data.
Key Features:
- Broken Link Checker: Identifies broken links (404s) and server errors, allowing for quick fixes and improved user experience.
- Redirect Audits: Finds temporary and permanent redirects, redirect chains, and loops, crucial for site migrations and maintaining link equity.
- Metadata Analysis: Analyzes page titles and meta descriptions to identify issues such as missing, duplicate, or excessively long/short elements.
- Duplicate Content Detection: Discovers exact and near-duplicate content, helping to avoid penalization by search engines.
- XPath Extraction: Extracts specific data from HTML using CSS Path, XPath, or regex, such as social meta tags, prices, and SKUs.
- Robots.txt and Directives Review: Views URLs blocked by robots.txt, meta robots, or X-Robots-Tag directives.
- XML Sitemap Generation: Creates XML sitemaps for improved crawlability by search engines.
- Google Analytics, Search Console & PageSpeed Insights Integration: Connects to Google APIs to fetch user and performance data.
- JavaScript Website Crawling: Renders web pages using Chromium WRS to crawl dynamic, JavaScript-rich websites.
- Site Architecture Visualization: Evaluates internal linking and URL structure using interactive crawl diagrams.
- Scheduled Audits: Automates crawls at chosen intervals and exports data to various locations.
- Crawl Comparison: Tracks progress of SEO issues and compares staging against production environments.
Use Cases:
- Technical SEO Audits
- Website Migrations
- Content Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Link Building
- JavaScript SEO
