Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb for an orphan-page cleanup: 48k-URL store

Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb for an orphan-page cleanup: 48k-URL store
A furniture retailer had bled traffic for months. I crawled the full site on a real license with both.

Screaming Frog
➕ Found 3,100 orphan URLs once I connected GA + Search Console + the XML sitemap as sources
➖ Orphan detection is manual — you must wire up those sources or it lies to you

Sitebulb
➕ Flagged the same orphans automatically plus a prioritised "hint" list with severity scores
➖ Crawl took 2.4x longer on 48k URLs

Outcome: we internally linked 900 orphaned product pages from category hubs. In 8 weeks, indexed pages rose from 31k to 39k and those products pulled +18% sessions.

Best for: Frog if you already live in it; Sitebulb if you want the diagnosis handed to you.
Price-vs-value: Frog £199/yr vs Sitebulb ~$45/mo. Frog wins on cost per crawl.

Pick Sitebulb if you bill clients and need the report to explain itself.
Skip Sitebulb if budget's tight and you know what an orphan is.