Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop website crawler that audits a site's technical SEO health, from broken links to duplicate content. It stands out as the industry-standard crawler for hands-on technical SEO work, running locally rather than in the cloud. Trusted by SEO professionals worldwide since 2010 for its depth of crawl configuration.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider's Core Features

• Find broken links, errors, and redirects
• Analyze page titles and meta data at scale
• Generate XML sitemaps
• JavaScript rendering for modern websites
• Custom extraction and custom JavaScript for advanced audits
• Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights integrations
• Crawl comparison to track changes over time
• AI integration for crawling with OpenAI and Gemini

Screaming Frog SEO Spider's Use Cases

1. Technical SEOs can use custom extraction to pull structured data from thousands of pages at once.
2. Agencies can use crawl comparison to show clients exactly what changed after a site migration.
3. Developers can use JavaScript rendering to audit modern JS-heavy websites accurately.
4. SEO consultants can use the free 500-URL version for quick spot-checks on smaller sites.
5. Enterprise teams can use scheduling to run recurring crawls without manual intervention.