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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google PageSpeed Insights

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGoogle PageSpeed Insights is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Google.N/A

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.9 out of 10
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    $149

    per year

    Pricing
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Editions & Modules
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    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Considered Both Products
    Google
    No answer on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    28 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    25 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    27 Answers
    Features
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Google PageSpeed Insights and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Google PageSpeed Insights
    7.5
    5 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.7
    52 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Keyword analysis6.01 Ratings7.419 Ratings
    Page grader7.34 Ratings10.021 Ratings
    Competitive analysis5.02 Ratings10.026 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics9.95 Ratings10.052 Ratings
    Site recommendations9.95 Ratings10.023 Ratings
    Task management6.72 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings8.08 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Google PageSpeed Insights and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Google PageSpeed Insights
    6.3
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    9.5
    36 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Local SEO5.01 Ratings8.116 Ratings
    Social SEO5.01 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.05 Ratings10.022 Ratings
    Global SEO5.43 Ratings10.028 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Google PageSpeed Insights and Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    Feature
    Google PageSpeed Insights
    8.5
    3 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.8
    41 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Multi-domain support9.12 Ratings10.030 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools8.01 Ratings7.534 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Small Businesses
    Nozzle
    Score10 out of 10
    Nozzle
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Advanced Web Ranking
    Score8.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Search Console
    Score9 out of 10
    Google Search Console
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google PageSpeed InsightsScreaming Frog
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    If you notice your site is taking a long time to load, then you should first use PageSpeed Insights to see what can quickly be optimized (also check your file sizes, hosting server, NGINX and other common sources of slow speed, too.) And, if you've notice gradually fewer Organic Search visits, PageSpeed Insights might be able to help. As Google is reducing the prevalence of slow sites, you could be losing traffic. Speed up your page load times by finding what is blocking renders, slowing down contentful paints, and other critical page speed signals.
    Incentivized
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Measure page loading time
    • Compared loading times against Google's benchmarks
    • Identifies opportunities for web page performance improvements
    • Identifies sub-optimal web page attributes that slow down page loading
    • Compare performance on mobile and desktop devices easily
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    Screaming Frog
    • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
    • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
    • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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    Cons
    Google
    • The suggestions for improvement can be technical for non-developers.
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    Screaming Frog
    • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
    • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
    • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Google
    It's a free, easy to use tool
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    Screaming Frog
    The main problem of Screaming Frog SEO Spider is it being an offline software which limits itself to a single pc and that creates problem when multi user agents want to get involved or even work on it, it’s a difficult task to collaborate on it and do research for keywords at one place
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    Support Rating
    Google
    There is no support from Google for the tool.
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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    Implementation Rating
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Screaming Frog
    If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    I think GTmetrix has some feedback that PageSpeed doesn't provide, but Google's tool is easier overall and has a better user experience; also offers compressed images, CSS, and javascript files if that's the case. Also, Google has extensive documentation to help you better understand what can be done to improve your grade.
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    Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • Faster loading site, give results faster to visitors
    • Buyers can get to the end of the buying cycle faster
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    Screaming Frog
    • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
    • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
    • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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