What is SEO Spider?

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an industry-leading website crawler trusted by thousands of SEO professionals.It's designed to perform comprehensive technical SEO audits, identifying over 300 issues related to site health, UX, and search engine optimization.

Users can instantly crawl websites to uncover broken links (404 errors), redirect problems, and duplicate content issues.The tool facilitates analysis of page titles, meta descriptions, headings, and internal linking structures.

It supports crawling JavaScript-rich sites using Chromium rendering and offers advanced features like XPath data extraction, XML sitemap generation, and integration with Google Analytics & Search Console.

The Spider can also detect mobile usability problems, analyze hreflang attributes, and validate structured data.For users with limited crawls, a free version allows for up to 500 URLs.A paid license unlocks unlimited crawling, advanced configuration options, and AI integrations like OpenAI & Gemini.

It’s used for tasks such as site migration audits, competitive analysis, and ongoing technical SEO monitoring.The tool visualizes website architecture through interactive diagrams and offers robust reporting capabilities.

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a powerful tool for both beginners and experienced SEO specialists.

SEO Spider pricing Freemium

Free version $0

20+ licences $169/£169/€169 per licenceper year

10-19 licences $179/£179/€179 per licenceper year

5-9 licences $189/£189/€189 per licenceper year

Paid version $199/£199/€199 per year

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SEO Spider's key features

Crawls websites in spider mode or list mode
Detects broken links and reports HTTP response codes including 404/4xx errors
Identifies internal and external broken links and provides an Inlinks view with source pages, anchor text, alt text, and follow/nofollow attributes
Bulk export and reporting (Client Error 4xx inlinks, redirects) with redirect chain tracing and source-to-broken-URL mappings
Advanced crawl settings: configurable crawl depth and crawl-fragment support to detect broken jump links and named anchors

SEO Spider use cases

Identifying and fixing broken links and redirect errors across a website.
Analyzing page titles, meta descriptions, and headings to optimize for search engines.
Monitoring website architecture and internal linking structures for improved crawlability.