Screaming Frog

Freemium Marketing & SEO Verified

Industry-standard desktop SEO crawler for in-depth website technical audits.

Overview

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a flexible website audit tool used by SEO professionals worldwide. It crawls website URLs in real time to uncover broken links, audit redirects, analyze page titles and meta data, discover duplicate content, and evaluate site architecture.

Key Capabilities

  • Real-time crawling detecting 404 broken links, server errors, and redirect loops
  • Deep analysis of title tags, meta descriptions, canonical tags, and structured data
  • API integrations connecting Google Analytics, Google Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights

Ideal Use Cases & Goals

  • “Auditing technical SEO health before and after website migrations or redesigns”
  • “Finding and repairing broken internal links and redirect chains across large websites”
  • “Extracting custom XPath and regex data from web pages during competitive audits”

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