AvocadoScore vs Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog hands you raw data. We hand you the report.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the desktop crawler agency SEOs live in — deep technical crawl, unlimited rows on a paid licence, every export imaginable. It's also a desktop app you install, configure, and run on your machine. AvocadoScore runs the SEO + Core Web Vitals + AI readiness analysis in the cloud and ships a shareable URL — no install, no licence, no spreadsheet exports.
Free, every fix unlocked · No signup · Ready in about 60 seconds
Feature-by-feature
| Capability | Screaming Frog | AvocadoScore |
|---|---|---|
| Deep technical SEO crawl | ✓ | ✓ |
| Configurable per-crawl behaviour | ✓ | |
| Runs in the cloud — no install | ✓ | |
| Shareable URL with one click | ✓ | |
| Core Web Vitals (lab + field) | ✓ | |
| AI Readiness — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, llms.txt | ✓ | |
| Plain-English fix list w/ effort estimates | ✓ | |
| Per-page deep dive page in the report | ✓ | |
| No spreadsheet hand-off | ✓ |
Screaming Frog is the right tool when SEO is your full-time job and you need every knob configurable. AvocadoScore is the right tool when you need the audit shipped to a stakeholder by end of week, not stitched together from a desktop crawl and three exports.
What Screaming Frog can't tell you
The three findings every AvocadoScore report surfaces that other tools physically can't — because they audit one side of the visibility equation.
Whether GPTBot can read your site
We fetch your homepage twice — once as a browser, once as GPTBot — and compare. Big content drops mean LLMs see a stripped page; CDN bot-detection is the usual culprit.
Whether your llms.txt is actually useful
Presence isn't quality. We validate that your llms.txt has a heading, link count, and sections — the things that make it a real content map for answer engines, not a tickbox file.
Which one fix is the quick win
We rank recommendations by severity × effort and call out true quick wins. You leave with three things to ship Monday, not 47 findings to sort.
Questions, answered
Is AvocadoScore a replacement for Screaming Frog?+
It replaces the audit workflow, not the underlying data. Screaming Frog does its job well; AvocadoScore scans your whole site in one pass, adds an SEO and AI-readiness scorecard, and hands your engineer a ranked, copy-paste fix list — the parts Screaming Frog leaves out.
Does Screaming Frog check AI readiness?+
No. Screaming Frog predates the answer-engine era. AvocadoScore checks whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can crawl, parse and cite your site — llms.txt, AI bot policies, structured data and server-rendered content — so you show up when people ask ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity instead of Googling.
How much does AvocadoScore cost?+
Nothing — the full audit is free, no signup, every fix unlocked. Re-run it any time to check after shipping fixes. An optional $9/mo Monitor adds automatic monthly re-scans and regression alerts if you want that too.
Do I need to install anything?+
No. Paste a URL and you get a shareable report in about 60 seconds — no browser extension, no CLI, no CI setup. The report is one link you can forward to engineering or a client.
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