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You stop maintaining a desktop
Screaming Frog runs on your machine. Cloud-native means audits run when you sleep, on schedule, with results pushed to email and Slack – no laptop required.
The SEO Control Plane·vs Screaming Frog
A Screaming Frog alternative that ships fixes, not just spreadsheets
Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler – it shows you what is broken and stops. SEMOptimiser crawls in the cloud, prioritises by ranking impact, and ships the fix to your CMS in one click.
Try SEMOptimiser freeScreaming Frog has been the technical SEO crawler of record for over a decade. For pure URL extraction and bespoke crawl rules it is still hard to beat. But the workflow ends the moment you find an issue – every fix lives in your dev backlog from that point on.
SEMOptimiser is built for the next step: prioritise the issues that move rankings, then push the actual fix (title, meta, H1, alt-text, schema) to WordPress, Shopify, Webflow or Wix without opening a ticket.
Side by side
SEMOptimiser vs Screaming Frog
| Capability | SEMOptimiser | Screaming Frog |
|---|---|---|
| Free unlimited audits | ||
| Cloud crawler (no desktop) | ||
| JavaScript rendering | £199/yr add-on | |
| One-click CMS fixes | ||
| Core Web Vitals built-in | ||
| AI-suggested fixes | ||
| Scheduled audits + alerts | Limited | |
| White-label reports | ||
| Crawl budget optimisation | ||
| Raw URL export |
Why teams switch
Four reasons teams move from Screaming Frog to SEMOptimiser
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Fixes go from "found" to "shipped"
The unique wedge: select issues, hit fix, and the change lands in your CMS. No ticket, no dev hand-off.
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Issues are prioritised by impact
Screaming Frog gives you a flat list of problems. SEMOptimiser ranks them by the URL traffic, ranking position and projected lift if you fix them.
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Free, not licensed
No 500-URL crawl cap, no annual licence. Free plan covers unlimited single-domain audits up to 5,000 URLs.
FAQ
Common questions about switching
- Q01Can I import my Screaming Frog crawl into SEMOptimiser?
- Yes – export Screaming Frog crawl as CSV and import directly. We map issues to our prioritisation engine and surface the ones with the highest projected lift.
- Q02Does SEMOptimiser support custom crawl rules like Screaming Frog?
- Yes. Include/exclude regex, custom extraction (XPath, CSS, regex), authentication, robots.txt overrides and request headers – all configurable per audit.
- Q03Is there a free plan?
- Yes. Unlimited audits up to 5,000 URLs per crawl on a free plan. No credit card required.
- Q04Will my historical Screaming Frog data be lost?
- No – your existing exports stay yours. SEMOptimiser keeps its own audit history starting the day you connect a site.
One platform. Five fewer subscriptions.
Audit, index and rank –
without a fifth subscription.
Join 1,200+ agencies and in-house teams using SEMOptimiser to replace Semrush, Ahrefs, GA4 add-ons and rank trackers – with one workflow that actually ships fixes.
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Aggregate impact
What 1,200+ teams shipped last 30 days
$2.4M
ad waste recovered
48,200
SEO issues auto-fixed
3.1M
URLs indexed in Google
14
AI surfaces tracked daily
Tools replaced
SemrushAhrefsScreaming FrogAccuRankerGA4 add-ons