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What's this doing differently or better than screamingfrog? Which is also a desktop program and provides quite robust information. SF has been one of the standa

What's this doing differently or better than screamingfrog? Which is also a desktop program and provides quite robust information. SF has been one of the standard industry tools for those doing SEO for years.

hathawayp 9y ago
The main difference from Screaming Frog (which is legitimately awesome) is the reporting. Once it has finished crawling it will do a lot of pre-processing for you and build graphs, lists of hints, etc... I've written a more comprehensive answer to this here: https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-different-to-other-crawlers/ https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-differ...
- 0x4a42 9y ago
  I'm testing Sitebulb right now (trial version). The crawling is kinda slow (I'm on 100mbits fiber). Why did you choose to build eveything from scratch instead of making an application that use the results from other crawlers/spiders (ie: Screaming Frog) and just produce the audit reports? EDIT: And after about 3hours of crawl, this is what I got (and no way to resume it): >Audit Stopped! >The audit stopped early because: Maximum Crawl depth limit of 50 reached >WARNING: Audit Paused ! The audit is incomplete and did not finish properly.
  - 0x4a42 9y ago
    I left the program running in the background and it resumed itself after a few minutes. I have no idea why as there was no info on the dashboard.
scaryclam 9y ago
SF is also a lot cheaper. With VAT, you're looking at £705.60 for sitebulb per year, vs £149.00 per year for SF. That's a really big price difference and you'd have to be really sure it's worth it. In addition SF works on Ubuntu, which is another point in its favour.
- hathawayp 9y ago
  I know right, SF is just too cheap for its own good! :p We think it's a case of horses for courses. Sitebulb has the potential to save you a ton of time when auditing and reporting. If you don't do a lot of that then it might not be a good option for you. If you do, that's where a lot of the value lies. There's a fully featured 2 week trial to give it a proper go, and the monthly billing means you have the option to switch it on/off as you need it.
seano314 9y ago
Agreed. This seems like SF + Gephi for 7x the price.
- hathawayp 9y ago
  We should put that on our homepage.

hathawayp 9y ago

The main difference from Screaming Frog (which is legitimately awesome) is the reporting. Once it has finished crawling it will do a lot of pre-processing for you and build graphs, lists of hints, etc... I've written a more comprehensive answer to this here: https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-different-to-other-crawlers/ https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-differ...

0x4a42 9y ago
I'm testing Sitebulb right now (trial version). The crawling is kinda slow (I'm on 100mbits fiber). Why did you choose to build eveything from scratch instead of making an application that use the results from other crawlers/spiders (ie: Screaming Frog) and just produce the audit reports? EDIT: And after about 3hours of crawl, this is what I got (and no way to resume it): >Audit Stopped! >The audit stopped early because: Maximum Crawl depth limit of 50 reached >WARNING: Audit Paused ! The audit is incomplete and did not finish properly.
- 0x4a42 9y ago
  I left the program running in the background and it resumed itself after a few minutes. I have no idea why as there was no info on the dashboard.

scaryclam 9y ago

SF is also a lot cheaper. With VAT, you're looking at £705.60 for sitebulb per year, vs £149.00 per year for SF. That's a really big price difference and you'd have to be really sure it's worth it. In addition SF works on Ubuntu, which is another point in its favour.

hathawayp 9y ago
I know right, SF is just too cheap for its own good! :p We think it's a case of horses for courses. Sitebulb has the potential to save you a ton of time when auditing and reporting. If you don't do a lot of that then it might not be a good option for you. If you do, that's where a lot of the value lies. There's a fully featured 2 week trial to give it a proper go, and the monthly billing means you have the option to switch it on/off as you need it.

seano314 9y ago

Agreed. This seems like SF + Gephi for 7x the price.

hathawayp 9y ago
We should put that on our homepage.