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Screaming Frog

screamingfrog.co.uk ↗

How this compares

Screaming Frog ranks #7 of 15 scanned SEO tools sites, scoring 79/100 — exactly the category average. The category leader scores 92. Immediately above is Mangools on 80, and immediately below, MarketMuse on 79.

Cited by AI answer engines

In the week of Oct 11, 2026, screamingfrog.co.uk was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 1 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 1 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 0 of 5 SEO tools prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #1, on “Which tool is best for a technical SEO audit of a site with 50,000 pages?” (Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6)). Citations are engine output at the time of the run, not a b/cited rating, and the prompts are a sample, not a census.

Overall
79 / 100
AEO
56 / 100
Rank
#7 of 15
Cited by AI
2 of 15
prompt × engine pairs, week of Oct 11, 2026
Last scanned
10/11/2026
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Results
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Overall
79 / 100
32 pass20 warn1 fail
Scanned
screamingfrog.co.uk
2.2s · 53 checks
⚠ PSI_API_KEY not configured
Indexing & crawl92 / 10010✓2!
  • HTTPS
    served over https://
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  • HTTP response
    200 OK
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  • Time to first byte
    387ms (fast)
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  • Redirect chain
    1 redirect (acceptable)
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  • robots.txt present
    1883 bytes
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  • robots.txt allows this URL
    Googlebot may crawl /
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  • Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
    no Sitemap: directive — search engines can still find /sitemap.xml at the root, but the directive is the canonical way
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  • sitemap.xml present
    617 URLs
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  • sitemap.xml uses <lastmod>
    lastmod hints help Googlebot prioritize re-crawls
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  • No noindex directive
    page is indexable
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  • Canonical URL
    canonical points elsewhere: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/
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  • lang attribute on <html>
    lang="en"
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Metadata100 / 1008✓
  • Title tag length
    27 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Title tag present
    "SEO Agency - Screaming Frog"
  • Meta description length
    152 chars — within SERP-display range
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  • Meta description present
    "We run remarkably successful search engine optimisation (SEO) and paid search (PPC) campaigns using…"
  • H1 heading
    single H1: "We are a UK based SEO agency and the creators of the famous website crawler and…"
  • Subheadings (H2)
    33 <h2> elements
  • Mobile viewport
    viewport meta present
  • Favicon
    icon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)56 / 1002✓5!1✗
  • llms.txt
    missing — recommended for sites you want cited by LLMs
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  • ai.txt (Spawning consent)
    missing (optional) — Spawning consent file is not load-bearing for citation, but signals intent
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  • AI crawler stance in robots.txt
    no AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)
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  • FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)
    absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answers
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  • HowTo schema
    absent — HowTo gets cited heavily for procedural queries
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  • Organization schema
    present
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  • WebSite / WebApplication schema
    present
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  • Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)
    absent — author credibility is part of Google E-E-A-T and feeds AI citation trust
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Structured data92 / 1005✓1!
  • JSON-LD structured data present
    1 JSON-LD block(s)
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  • JSON-LD valid JSON
    all blocks parsed cleanly
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  • Organization or WebSite schema
    Organization + WebSite
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  • Sitelinks searchbox (SearchAction)
    WebSite.potentialAction declared
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  • BreadcrumbList
    breadcrumb path declared
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  • Content-specific schema in use
    no content-type schema (Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo, …) — opportunity for rich results
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Social cards80 / 1003✓2!
  • Open Graph (core 5)
    og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url, og:type all present
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  • og:image dimensions
    og:image:width + og:image:height declared
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  • og:image:alt
    no og:image:alt — sets alt text when image is shared
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  • Twitter Card (core 4)
    twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image all present
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  • twitter:image:alt
    no twitter:image:alt — limits accessibility on the X.com card
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Security79 / 1004✓3!
  • HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security)
    max-age=0 — recommend ≥31536000 (1 year)
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  • X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
    nosniff set
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  • Clickjacking protection
    X-Frame-Options: DENY
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  • Content-Security-Policy
    23 bytes of policy
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  • Referrer-Policy
    no Referrer-Policy — browsers will use defaults that leak origin
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  • Permissions-Policy
    no Permissions-Policy — opportunity to restrict unused browser APIs
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  • No mixed content
    no http:// asset references on this https page
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Performance50 / 1001!
  • PageSpeed Insights API
    PSI_API_KEY not configured
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Mobile50 / 1005!
  • Viewport meta
    viewport disables pinch-zoom — Google flags this as an accessibility issue
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  • Apple touch icon
    no apple-touch-icon — iOS home-screen bookmarks will use a fallback
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  • theme-color meta
    no theme-color — mobile browser chrome uses default color
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  • AMP variant
    no AMP variant — Google no longer requires AMP; informational only
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  • Web app manifest
    no manifest — site is not installable as a PWA
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International50 / 1001!
  • hreflang annotations
    no hreflang declarations — fine for English-only sites; required for localized variants
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