siteIQ vs Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a downloadable desktop crawler built for deep, site-wide technical SEO audits — checking thousands of URLs for broken links, duplicate titles, redirect chains and more. siteIQ runs in the browser with no install, and checks a single URL instantly across SEO, security, performance and accessibility.
| Feature | siteIQ | Screaming Frog |
|---|---|---|
| Runs in browser, no install | ||
| Site-wide crawl (many URLs at once) | ||
| Single-page instant check | ||
| Security header & SSL checks | ||
| Core Web Vitals / speed | Limited | |
| Accessibility checks | ||
| Deep XPath / custom extraction | ||
| Platform | Web (any device) | Desktop app (Win/Mac/Linux) |
Which one should you use?
If you need to crawl thousands of URLs on a large site and dig into custom extraction rules, Screaming Frog's desktop crawler is purpose-built for that scale of technical SEO work. If you want a fast, single-URL check you can run from any browser — with security, performance and accessibility bundled in, not just SEO — siteIQ is the quicker option and needs no download or license.
They solve different problems well: Screaming Frog for exhaustive, page-by-page crawls of an entire site; siteIQ for a fast, broad health check on any single URL.