# SEO: The Ultimate Tool to Check Your Pages and Links

In the technical management of SEO (search engine optimization), there are several things to check:

• "Missing" pages (404)
• Redirects
• Relevant metadata
• Page loading time
• Etc...

Some of this information is available on tools like Google Search Console, but others are harder to find!

Fortunately, there's a tool to automate the retrieval of this data!

Screaming Frog (SEO Spider)

The SEO Spider tool, published by Screaming Frog, is truly a must-have tool for optimizing a site's SEO!

Simply download the software right here: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider

Then just enter your site's URL, and off you go!

Features

SEO Spider will crawl through all the pages of your site (subfolders or subdomains) and will surface all the links found, along with a ton of crucial information.

Among this information, you'll notably find:

• Whether the page is accessible/indexable or not
• The validity of the redirect
• Info on metadata (title, keywords, size, speed, etc.)
• Info on data (text ratio, word count, sentence count, words per sentence, etc.)
• Internal/external links
• And many other things...

Overall, the report contains all the information you'll need to strengthen or fix your SEO!

Pros and Cons

The real specificity of SEO Spider is that it's software that uses your computer's local resources to perform its analysis, which comes with advantages and disadvantages:

Pros

• Ultra-comprehensive analysis
• Instant analysis, as often as you like
• Includes graphical page rendering, PageSpeed analysis, and even a spelling/grammar check
• Export possible to CSV, Google Sheets
• ...

Cons

The only downside (aside from the price) is that if you're working with a really slow machine, the software may use a lot of resources and take a while (if the site is large).

But for under 100 pages, this is a truly negligible drawback

Pricing