107 SEO checks
Broken links, redirect chains, missing titles and descriptions, H1s, canonicals, hreflang, alt text, noindex, thin content and more.
Technical SEO crawler · Dashboard · JSON API
Screaming Cow crawls your website, checks every page against 107 technical SEO rules and tells you what to fix first. Read it in the dashboard, or drive the whole audit from your own code with the API.
What it is
Screaming Cow is a self-hosted crawler. Point it at a website and it follows every link it can find, records each page, and checks it for the problems that cost rankings.
Broken links, redirect chains, missing titles and descriptions, H1s, canonicals, hreflang, alt text, noindex, thin content and more.
One number for the site, and a ranked list of what to fix first by severity and by how many pages it touches.
Charts, issue lists, a page explorer with every link and resource, and sitemap coverage for each project.
PageSpeed Insights for your front page, mobile and desktop, with the Core Web Vitals Chrome users actually saw.
Download the audit as HTML, PDF, Excel or JSON, export URLs to CSV, or keep a WACZ archive of the whole crawl.
Create projects, toggle their settings, start crawls and fetch every result with an API key. No clicking required.
How it works
Create an account, then add the site from the dashboard or with POST /projects. Pick which checks to run; every crawl covers the whole site.
Press Crawl Now and watch it live, or call POST /projects/{id}/crawls from a script, a CI job or a cron.
Browse the report in the dashboard, download it, or pull the report, issues and pages as JSON into your own tools.
Create an account, add your site and get your first report in minutes.