A free alternative to Screaming Frog
A desktop application that crawls websites for technical SEO analysis, widely used by SEO professionals and agencies for large-scale audits.
What Screaming Frog does well
- Extremely capable at scale — it will crawl very large sites and extract almost anything you ask it to.
- Deep technical control, custom extraction, and integrations that professionals rely on.
- A free tier is available with a crawl limit, with paid licensing for larger crawls.
Where it stops
- It's a desktop application you install, configure, and learn — not a link you send someone.
- It gives you data, not a verdict. Interpreting the crawl is your job.
- Not aimed at answering "is my website any good and what should I fix first?" for a non-specialist.
What MyWebsiteScore adds
- An instant scored report in the browser, with nothing to install.
- A verdict and a priority order rather than a spreadsheet to interpret.
- A public, shareable report link — useful for showing a client or a colleague.
Which should you use?
Use Screaming Frog for large or complex sites, or when you need technical control over a crawl. For a professional doing a deep technical audit, it's the better tool and we wouldn't pretend otherwise.