Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb for a technical crawl:

Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb for a technical crawl:
Tested both on a 40k-URL ecommerce site on the same laptop.

Screaming Frog
➕ Raw speed — finished the crawl in ~6 min vs ~11 for Sitebulb
➕ Custom extraction (XPath/regex) is unmatched for one-off data pulls
➖ You have to know what you're looking for; it shows data, not meaning

Sitebulb
➕ Prioritized "Hints" with severity + explanation — great for handing to a dev
➕ Crawl maps and visualizations make depth/orphan issues obvious
➖ Slower, heavier on RAM, and the report polish costs crawl time

Best for: experienced SEOs who want raw data fast → Frog. Reports a client or junior reads → Sitebulb.

Price-vs-value: Frog £199/yr, Sitebulb from ~$13.50/mo. Frog is cheaper long-term if you don't need the hand-holding.

Pick this if you extract custom data and trust your own eyes: Frog. Skip if you need explained findings, not a spreadsheet: Frog.

I tested this on a real account, paid.