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Enter a URL and our crawler will visit up to 50 pages on your site, checking each one for common SEO issues: missing title tags, missing meta descriptions, noindex directives, HTTP errors, and slow response times. Get a full issue summary with every problem listed per page.

Crawls may take up to 60 seconds depending on site size.

What This Tool Checks

BFS crawl of up to 50 pages starting from your URL
Detects: missing title tags, missing meta descriptions, duplicate titles
Finds: noindex pages, HTTP 4xx/5xx errors, redirect chains
Measures response time per page — flags slow pages (over 3 seconds)
Counts internal links found per page
Summarizes total issues found by type across the entire crawl

How to crawl a website for SEO issues

Run a free SEO crawl on any website in under a minute — no signup, no install.

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Paste your URL
Enter the starting URL of the site you want to crawl. The crawler will follow links from this page.
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Click Start Crawl
PerfBee's cloud crawler begins a breadth-first scan of up to 50 pages on your domain.
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Wait for the audit
Most crawls finish in 30–60 seconds. You'll see a live progress indicator.
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Review the issue summary
Check the per-page issue list: broken links, missing meta tags, noindex pages, slow pages, and more.
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Upgrade for unlimited crawling
Need to crawl more than 50 pages or schedule daily audits? Start a free PerfBee account for unlimited crawls.

Why This Matters for SEO

A site crawl simulates what Googlebot sees when it visits your website. Issues invisible to humans — missing titles on dynamically generated pages, accidental noindex tags on important pages, orphaned pages with no internal links — only become visible when you crawl systematically. Regular crawling is how professional SEOs stay ahead of site issues.

Want this audit running on every page of your site, every day? See PerfBee Site Crawler — Unlimited pages, scheduled crawls, JavaScript rendering, and team alerts.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a website crawler?

A website crawler (also called a spider or bot) is a program that automatically visits web pages by following links, starting from a seed URL. It reads the HTML of each page, extracts links, and follows them to discover more pages. Search engines like Google use crawlers to discover and index web content. SEO crawlers like this tool check each page for technical issues as they crawl.

What SEO issues does a site crawler find?

A site crawler can find: missing or duplicate title tags, missing or duplicate meta descriptions, noindex pages (including accidental ones), HTTP errors (404 broken pages, 5xx server errors), pages with no internal links pointing to them (orphan pages), redirect chains and loops, slow-loading pages, missing canonical tags, and thin content pages.

How does a site crawler work?

Our crawler starts at your URL, reads the HTML, extracts all <a href> links pointing to the same domain, and adds them to a queue. It visits each queued URL, checks for SEO issues (missing tags, HTTP errors, noindex directives), then extracts more links. This continues in breadth-first order (widest coverage first) until it reaches 50 pages or runs out of URLs to visit.

Why does the crawler stop at 50 pages?

The free tool limits crawls to 50 pages to ensure fast results (most crawls complete in under 60 seconds) and to prevent server overload. For a full-site crawl across hundreds or thousands of pages, PerfBee's paid plans run unlimited-depth crawls on a schedule, checking your entire site daily and sending alerts when new issues are found.

How is this different from Google Search Console?

Google Search Console shows issues that Google has already discovered — after they've affected your rankings. A site crawler finds issues proactively, before Google sees them. Search Console also only covers pages that Google has crawled, while this tool crawls pages that may not be in Google's index yet. Together, both tools give you a complete picture.

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Crawl your entire site — not just 50 pages

Need more than 50 pages? PerfBee crawls unlimited pages, schedules daily scans, and sends you a report every time new issues are found. Get daily crawl reports, broken link alerts, Core Web Vitals tracking, and AI fix suggestions — across your entire site.