Xenu's Link Sleuth Alternatives

Xenu's Link Sleuth is described as 'Xenus Link Sleuth checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets' and is a website monitoring tool in the network & admin category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Xenu's Link Sleuth for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Windows, Mac, SaaS and Linux apps. The best Xenu's Link Sleuth alternative is SiteOne Crawler, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Xenu's Link Sleuth are Screaming Frog SEO Spider, Netpeak Spider, Beam Us Up Crawler and Sitebulb.

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  1. SiteOne Crawler icon

    SiteOne Crawler

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    A free in-depth website analyzer providing audits of security, performance, SEO, accessibility and other technical aspects. Available as a desktop application for Windows/macOS/Linux and as a CLI tool for advanced users and CI/CD processes. It also includes an offline web page exporter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • SiteOne Crawler is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • SiteOne Crawler is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • SiteOne Crawler is Free and Open SourceXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
  2. Screaming Frog SEO Spider icon

    Screaming Frog SEO Spider

     35 likes

    The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a small desktop program (PC or Mac) which crawls websites’ links, images, CSS, script and apps from an SEO perspective.

    96 Screaming Frog SEO Spider alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    • Most users think Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a great Xenu's Link Sleuth alternative.

    • Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the most popular commercial alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • Screaming Frog SEO Spider is Paid and ProprietaryXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
  4. Netpeak Spider icon

    Netpeak Spider

     51 likes

    Netpeak Spider is an SEO crawler for a day-to-day SEO audit, fast issue check, comprehensive analysis, and website scraping.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    Comments about Netpeak Spider as an Alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth
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    same tasks, similar features

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    • Almost everyone thinks Netpeak Spider is a great Xenu's Link Sleuth alternative.

    • Netpeak Spider is Paid and ProprietaryXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
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    WebSite Auditor

    Transform your website with an SEO audit tool providing insights like search engine bots. It finds broken links, duplicate content, and more, with step-by-step fix guidance.

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  7. Sitebulb icon

    Sitebulb

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    Sitebulb is an extremely powerful website auditor with the world's most insightful reporting system, winner of "Best Search Software Tool" at the 2018 UK Search Awards and the US Search Awards.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  8. LinkChecker icon

    LinkChecker

     12 likes

    LinkChecker is a free, GPL licensed website validator. LinkChecker checks links in web documents or full websites. Check websites and HTML documents for broken links.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. Seobility icon

    Seobility

     10 likes

    Automated SEO platform providing comprehensive site auditing, on-page and technical optimization checks, keyword rank and SERP tracking, backlink profile analysis, competitor benchmarking, duplicate content detection, and actionable recommendations for all site sizes.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
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    Comments about Seobility as an Alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth
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    Its a clould service, which is way more comfortable.

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    Strong at detecting Onpage errors, including broken or erroneous links!

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    • Seobility is the most popular Web-based alternative to Xenu's Link Sleuth.

    • Seobility is Freemium and ProprietaryXenu's Link Sleuth is Free and Proprietary
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    Integrity

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    If you've maintained a website for any length of time, you'll know that links very quickly become broken. Unless you enjoy clicking every single link on your site followed by the back button, then you'll need to use a website crawler like Integrity!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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  12. TechSEO360 icon

    TechSEO360

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    TechSEO360 essentially offers crawling of huge websites, collects and shows just about any technical SEO related information you want and can create all types of sitemaps including XML with hreflang information, image, video and HTML/CSS/Javascript.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  13. Deepcrawl icon

    Deepcrawl

     3 likes

    DeepCrawl is the world's most comprehensive website crawler. Analyse your website architecture to understand and monitor technical issues to improve SEO performance.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  14. Visual SEO Studio icon

    Visual SEO Studio

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    Presenting Visual SEO Studio, a desktop SEO Software with an innovative visual approach to Search Engine Optimization. Free version available. Complex SEO tasks made easy.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  15. A1 Website Analyzer icon

    A1 Website Analyzer

     3 likes

    A1 Website Analyzer can crawl websites and collect data to be used for finding site and SEO problems. Filter results to see which URLs are blocked by robots.txt, which are noindex, nofollow, canonical to self, canonical to other, response codes etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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