Screaming Frog SEO Spider vs JetOctopus

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a powerhouse website crawler designed for in-depth SEO auditing. Deployed as a desktop application, it enables SEO professionals to swiftly crawl websites and uncover technical issues like broken links, duplicate content, and redirect chains. Through its intuitive interface, users can explore metadata, headlines, images, structured data, and pagination, all in one sophisticated dashboard.

Advanced filtering helps uncover indexing barriers such as headers missing tags, oversize pages, or uncompressed images that may degrade page speed. Custom extraction features allow targeting of bespoke content or scripts, while in-crawler SERP simulation helps mimic the search engine’s point of view. With support for integrations like Google Analytics and Search Console, it’s possible to enrich technical audits with real performance data.

JetOctopus is a high-speed, cloud-native SEO crawler built for scalability and enterprise performance. Unlike traditional desktop-based crawlers, it operates in the cloud—allowing analysis of thousands or millions of URLs rapidly and effortlessly. It tracks web metrics including crawl budget usage, indexability issues, internal and external link structures, and response codes to uncover technical inefficiencies and crawler impediments.

Users benefit from real-time anomaly detection, enabling rapid identification of URL volatility, metadata deviations, and user-agent-based accessibility issues.