By Iliass El Barhoumi · Published · Last updated
Which question does each tool answer?
Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler for technical SEO audits. CrawlRadar is AI search analytics. The table lists the questions a team usually brings to each, and the tool built for that question.
| The question you are asking | Built for it |
|---|---|
| Which URLs return 404s, redirect chains or duplicate titles? | Screaming Frog |
| What does my site look like to a configurable crawler? | Screaming Frog |
| Which AI crawlers actually visited, and were they genuine? | CrawlRadar |
| How many visitors did ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot send me? | CrawlRadar |
| Can an answer engine retrieve, parse and quote this specific page? | Both, differently |
What CrawlRadar measures
- AI crawler visits. A server-side collector identifies 56+ AI crawlers in your request log and verifies each against the vendor’s published IP ranges, because these bots never run an analytics tag.
- AI referral traffic. A tracking tag counts the visitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot send, and the pages they land on.
- Page readiness. 14 checks score each page 0–100 on whether an answer engine can retrieve, trust and quote it, including the 14 AI crawler tokens in your robots.txt.
How do teams use Screaming Frog and CrawlRadar together?
Crawl the site with Screaming Frog to clear technical errors, then use CrawlRadar to see which AI crawlers really come, which pages they fetch, and which pages are ready to be quoted.
When is Screaming Frog the better choice?
For deep technical audits of large sites, custom extraction and crawl configuration, Screaming Frog is the specialist tool and CrawlRadar does not compete with it.
This page describes Screaming Frog by its category rather than its feature list, because feature lists change. Check Screaming Frog’s own documentation for what it offers today. See the other comparisons for the rest of the tools CrawlRadar is often used alongside.
Frequently asked questions
Can Screaming Frog crawl as GPTBot?
Crawlers like it can usually send a custom user agent, which shows what your server returns to that name. It does not show whether OpenAI’s real crawler visited, which only your own request log, or a collector reading it, can tell you.
How many pages can CrawlRadar audit at once?
Up to 100 URLs from a sitemap in one bulk run, each scored on the same 14 checks as a single-page scan.