Screaming Frog is a powerful SEO tool for monitoring your websites and finding optimizing opportunities. But the price is too high and the interface is for professionals. If you are looking for an alternative to Screaming Frog, you have come to the right place.
In this article, I will share with you 7 Screaming Frog alternatives. 4 of them are totally free to use without limitations.
# 1: Majento Site Analyzer
Majento Site Analyzer is totally free to use without limitations. When I first try it, I wouldn’t believe a great SEO tool with so many features is free. This free software is constantly updated with better performance and new features.
You do not need any additional configuration or installation to use this software. You just need to download it and extract it. It works just like Screaming Frog only a little bit faster, but with less criteria of course.
You can export the report results as TXT or CSV files on your computer, so you can access them easily whenever you want.
# 2: Smart SEO Auditor
Smart SEO Auditor is a new tool for website analysis. It provides a free version and you download it from its official website. Once installed, you can run the app and type the website URL that you want to analyze and then click the “Start crawling” button.
As stated by the owner of Smart SEO Auditor, it is about “website analysis in one click”. The program will check all the pages under the domain in the background. This tool will check more than different criteria for each page from broken links and duplicates to server response codes titles, descriptions, keywords, user-friendly URLs, etc.
When the crawling is complete, all the potential problems are listed on the main screen with a little description. You can click on each to see the details and fix them accordingly. Well, the free version only allows you to check 100 pages, which is similar to Screaming Frog’s 500 URLs. You can get an annual subscription for only 39.5 $. If you just want to try the full version, you can get the monthly plan which is $14.5.
# 3: Website Auditor
WebSite Auditor tool is one of the tools in SEO PowerSuite and you can purchase it separately. Compared to Screaming Frog, Website Auditor provides a more user-friendly interface. Even if you are new to SEO, with its report, you should know what to do.
With Website Auditor’s detailed report, you will be able to fix crawlability & indexing issues (robots.txt, 4xx, 5xx, and X-Robots-Tag), redirect chains, coding issues, broken links, meta tags, etc. Content Optimization is also something I regularly use.
Like Screaming Frog, Website Auditor also allows you to visualize your site structure & interact with It.
The only problem with Website Auditor is that it always reports more issues than it actually has. I don’t know why it happens. Website Auditor is free to use with limited features. You can get the single Website Auditor Professional version lifetime license for $124.75 or you can get the Enterprise license for 299.75.
#4: Integrity
Integrity is a free link checker (donationware) available for MacOS. It is free to use without restrictions for personal use. You are welcome to donate to encourage future development. For commercial usage, you can purchase Integrity Plus or Scrutiny.
You can use Integrity to check sites for broken links, checks images as well as internal and external links, highlights problems, generate sitemap, check spelling and grammar, etc. You can also export all the reports.
#5: SEO Spider by BeamUsUp
SEO Spider by BeamUsUp is a free website crawling tool that offers features similar to Screaming Frog. It allows you to crawl websites and generate comprehensive reports on issues such as broken links, duplicate content, missing metadata, and more.
The tool provides detailed information that can help you optimize your website’s SEO performance. While it may not have all the advanced features of Screaming Frog, it definitely is a solid choice for basic website auditing needs.
# 6: Xenu Link Sleuth
Free open-source tool, Xenu Link Sleuth can help you check all the internal and external links and sort all results in a perfect form. If you only want to find broken links, then this one is quite good for the job. You can also import a list of URLs to check. I sometimes, use it for broken link building.
Compared with other Screaming Frog alternatives here, Xenu Link Sleuth has the least features. Also, be aware that it is not working with relative path links. Luckily, only a small portion of websites are using the relative path.
# 7: Audit My PC
AuditMyPC is a free yet powerful online tool. Most people use it for generating sitemap for websites have more than 500 pages. As you see it also returns, title tags, server response status, so you can also use it to check broken links.
Well, this tool is based on Java. As you know, most of the web browser does not have support for Java anymore. Therefore, you need to install the Firefox ESR (Extended Support Release) and then install Java before you can use this tool.
Conclusion
That’s all the 7 free Screaming Frog alternatives. Some are completely free to use, the others require a paid upgrade to unlock restricted features. Now it’s your turn. Which of the tools are you going to use? If you have a better SEO audit tool to replace Screaming Frog, do let us know in the comments.
Smart SEO Auditor is better I think. I have crawled many websites with this util. Very useful reports, many “Help” buttons, export to Excel. And low price! So, I am voting for Smart SEO Auditor.
Please update the article. Majento Site Analyzer is no longer free.
I prefer Smart SEO Auditor. That is something new on the market and not so expensive like the Frog. The application provides quite enough functionality for me. Also, I like this small red and green icons, that is what I want to see in the Frog. Screaming Frog is powerful but it is hard to work with this util.