SITEONE CRAWLER
I wanted to introduce you to a tool that is luxurious, its name is very well chosen and it is also free.
SiteOne Crawler is a platform designed to scan and analyze websites in search of improvement opportunities. With a focus on SEO, security, performance and accessibility, it is worth highlighting that it offers deep insights into every corner of your site.
It works on Windows, macOS and Linux, having two variants, one with a graphical interface and the other with a command line.
Its main characteristics
1. Full Site Crawl
It can crawl through all pages of your site, including resources like JavaScript, CSS, images, and fonts. It detects broken links, unnecessary redirects, and issues in header structure, allowing you to fix errors before they affect user experience or your search engine rankings.
2. Detailed Reports
Upon completion of the scan, SiteOne Crawler generates comprehensive and detailed reports in formats like HTML, text, or JSON. These reports highlight:
HTTP status codes.
Response times.
Content sizes.
Specific recommendations for improvement.
3. Offline Version Generation
With this tool, you can create a browsable version of your site to review offline. This is ideal if you need to perform offline audits or maintain an archive of your content.
4. Automatic Sitemaps
You can also generate sitemap.xml and sitemap.txt files to efficiently index your site if you don’t have one.
5. Performance Testing
Assess your site’s ability to handle high volumes of traffic. Set up load tests with parallel and per-second requests, and determine how your infrastructure responds under pressure.
Just looking at its basic settings interface doesn’t make you want to try it out?
Its advanced options are already really cool, the only thing I don’t like is that by default the option to upload the report to your server is enabled in the full setting at the bottom or in the basic setting at the bottom right.
I think it is something that the user should choose instead of being the default, for the rest it is a wonderful tool.
I am not going to give you a manual because it is simple to install and what is cool is to explore it. You can find it at crawler.siteone.io
TL.
FAQs
The software crawls a website in a similar way to search engines, extracting key data about its structure, internal links, loading times, meta tags, and other elements essential to SEO and user experience.
- Detection of technical errors such as broken links and incorrect redirects.
- SEO optimization through analysis of meta tags, headers and URL structure.
- Evaluation of web performance, including loading times and rendering problems.
Yes, it is designed to analyze both small sites and large platforms, allowing you to crawl thousands of pages and generate detailed reports with optimization recommendations.
Yes, you can crawl any website, regardless of the platform or CMS it is built on, as long as the content is accessible to crawlers.
