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Screaming Frog
Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-08-03 — deterministic & reproducible
UK-based SEO agency and maker of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool.
Is Screaming Frog production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Screaming Frog 79 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Screaming Frog (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Discoverability; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 50/100
- Accessibility — 73/100
- Security — 90/100
- Privacy — 75/100
- Reliability — 90/100
- Standards — 76/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 595 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 2 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
- Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.
Who built it
product account @screamingfrog
Who it's for
SEOs · SEO agencies · Website administrators · Digital marketers
Pricing
€245 per year (single licence); €235 per licence/year (5-9 licences); €219 per licence/year (10-19); €209 per licence/year (20+)