ismycodesafe.com

ismycodesafe.com vs Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog is a battle-tested desktop SEO crawler. ismycodesafe.com is a cloud scanner that combines security, SEO, and AI search readiness in one dual-grade report.

Quick verdict

Use Screaming Frog when you need to crawl 500+ URLs across a single site for technical SEO audits. Use ismycodesafe.com when you want a single-URL dual-grade view that covers security gaps, SEO hygiene, and whether ChatGPT / Perplexity will cite the page - all without installing anything.

Feature comparison

Featureismycodesafe.comScreaming Frog
PricingFree + $49 premium / $25 monthly£259/year (1 seat)
Form factorCloud, share-by-URLDesktop app (Windows/Mac/Linux)
Security checks180+-
Dual grade (Security + SEO)-
AI search readiness grade10 GEO checks-
OWASP Top 10 mapping-
CVE detection (NVD + OSV + retire.js)-
On-page SEO audit21 checks100+ crawl checks
Site-wide crawlSingle URLFull site (paid tier)
Schema.org / JSON-LD validationFAQPage, Article, Author
FAQPage citation readiness-
AI-generated remediation report$49 premium-
Subdomain discovery (crt.sh)-
Threat intelligence (VirusTotal, PhishTank)-

Use ismycodesafe.com when

  • +You want one scan that returns Security grade AND SEO grade AND AI Search Readiness grade
  • +You build with AI-generated code and need OWASP + CVE coverage Screaming Frog does not provide
  • +You want to share results by URL with non-technical stakeholders
  • +You need a citation-readiness signal for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews
  • +You prefer a monthly subscription with auto re-scan over a per-seat annual license

Use Screaming Frog when

  • +You need to crawl an entire 5,000-page site for broken links, redirects, and duplicate content
  • +You want desktop-only data residency (nothing leaves the machine)
  • +You are doing technical SEO consulting and need granular crawl configuration (depth limits, robots overrides)
  • +You want to script crawls via CLI and integrate with custom workflows

The fundamental difference

Screaming Frog is a site crawler. You point it at a domain and it walks every URL it finds, reporting on title tags, headers, redirects, canonicals, and similar SEO signals across the whole site.

ismycodesafe.com is a single-URL deep scanner. You point it at one page and it runs 180+ security checks plus SEO + AI search readiness in parallel. Same URL, three grades. No crawl needed.

What Screaming Frog does brilliantly

  • Site-wide crawl economics: Once licensed, you can crawl 500,000 URLs without per-scan cost
  • JavaScript rendering: Configurable headless Chromium for SPA-heavy sites
  • Custom extraction: XPath, CSS selectors, regex on any page element
  • Log file integration: Match crawl data against server logs for orphan-page analysis
  • Granular config: Crawl depth, follow patterns, robots overrides, custom user agents

If you are an SEO consultant, you already have it. We are not trying to replace it.

What ismycodesafe.com adds that Screaming Frog cannot

Screaming Frog answers "is this site well structured for Google?". We answer three questions at once:

  1. Is the code safe? SSL/TLS, headers, OWASP Top 10, CVEs, exposed files, threat intel.
  2. Is the SEO healthy? Meta tags, schema, indexability, Core Web Vitals signals.
  3. Will AI engines cite this page? FAQPage schema, question-format headings, citation-shaped first paragraphs, factual density.

Screaming Frog never touched the security layer. By design. We never tried to compete on site-wide crawl. By design.

The dual-grade advantage

Every result page on ismycodesafe.com shows three independent A-F grades. A site can have an A on security and a D on SEO. Or a B on SEO and an F on AI search readiness. These signals are intentionally separated because they predict different business outcomes.

Screaming Frog gives you a spreadsheet of issues per URL. ismycodesafe.com gives you three executive-summary grades plus the detailed findings underneath.

When to run both

If you ship a new landing page:

  1. Run ismycodesafe.com on the new URL before deploy. Catch security + SEO + AI readiness in 60 seconds.
  2. Run Screaming Frog monthly across the entire domain. Catch site-wide drift (broken links, duplicate metas, orphan pages).

Pricing

Screaming Frog: Free for up to 500 URLs per crawl. £259/year (one seat, ~$325) for unlimited crawl, JavaScript rendering, and integrations.

ismycodesafe.com: Free unlimited single-URL scans. $49 one-off for the AI-generated remediation report (security + SEO + AI search readiness PDF). $25/month subscription auto-re-scans the same URL every 30 days.

The honest summary

Screaming Frog owns site-wide technical SEO crawling. It is the right tool when you have a 5,000-page site and need to audit everything.

ismycodesafe.com owns single-URL deep scanning across three independent axes (security, SEO, AI search). It is the right tool when you want to know if a specific URL is safe to ship and ready to be cited - without installing anything.

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