Raven Tools vs Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser

Raven Tools is a cloud-based digital marketing platform with SEO tools and automated reporting, available on the web with an API platform listed. Its SEO capabilities include rank tracking, competitor and keyword research, backlink research, website audits and reporting. Users can assemble customizable drag-and-drop marketing reports and connect more than twenty data sources. Listed integrations include Google Analytics, AdWords, Search Console, Bing Ads, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. White-label reporting includes branded reports, a custom subdomain and branded custom email; a custom domain is available from Grow. The free account covers one website to track and audit, 25 keyword rankings, 100 queries per day and 100 pages crawled per month. Pricing notes a seven-day trial and paid plans from $39 per month billed annually. Small Biz is listed at $468 yearly prepaid, with two domains or campaigns, two users and 1,500 position checks. Raven says it serves agencies, in-house marketers and media companies. After cancellation, account data is stored for 30 days and then deleted.

Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser is a desktop application for examining access logs and understanding search engine and AI bot activity. It installs locally and keeps log event data in a local database. It accepts Apache, W3C Extended, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing logs, and can verify supported bots to identify spoofed requests. Reports cover crawled URLs, crawl frequency, response errors, redirects, bytes downloaded, and response times. Users can match imported data containing a URLs column against log activity, including crawls, directives, or external link data. Log files can be added by drag and drop, with analysis exported to CSV or Excel. The software can process millions of events, though capacity depends on hard drive space. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The free plan allows 1,000 log event lines and one project. The paid licence costs $139 per year and includes unlimited events and projects, subject to storage capacity. Free technical support is listed for both versions.