Netpeak Spider is a powerful desktop application designed for comprehensive technical SEO audits and website optimization. Here’s a detailed overview of what the product does and its key features:
What Netpeak Spider Does
Netpeak Spider is a tool that crawls entire websites to identify and analyze various SEO parameters, technical issues, and other optimization mistakes. It is particularly useful for SEO audits, helping users improve their website’s visibility in search engine results pages (SERPs).Key Features and Functionality
Crawling Capabilities
- Netpeak Spider can crawl a whole website, a list of given URLs, URLs from a sitemap, or even URLs from Google Analytics or Google Search Console. It also supports crawling using a virtual robots.txt file.
SEO Audits and Issue Detection
- The tool checks over 100 SEO optimization mistakes and categorizes issues into critical errors, important warnings, and notices. This classification helps users prioritize and address problems efficiently.
Data Analysis and Reporting
- After crawling, Netpeak Spider generates detailed reports that can be exported in .XLSX, .CSV, or .PDF formats. Users can create White Label reports, which are customizable with logos, contact details, and additional comments.
Spell Check and Content Analysis
- The tool includes a spell check feature that identifies language mistakes in titles, descriptions, headers (h2-H6), image alt attributes, and page content. It also suggests corrections and allows users to ignore specific words.
Customizable Crawling Rules
- Users can set specific patterns to crawl only selected parts of a website, such as product pages or blog posts, while ignoring unnecessary sections.
User Agent and Scraping
- Netpeak Spider allows users to change the user agent to mimic different search engines, browsers, or devices. It also features a built-in website scraper that can extract data using up to 100 conditions and four types of search parameters (contains, Regexp, XPath, CSS).
Integration and Data Visualization
- The tool integrates with Google Analytics and Google Search Console to gather additional data. It also provides data visualization options and custom reports with diagrams and graphics.
Additional Features
- Netpeak Spider can calculate internal PageRank, generate sitemaps, and analyze HTTP headers and source code. It also includes an XML Sitemap Validator and the ability to save templates for settings and parameters to streamline future audits.
Flexibility and Efficiency
- Users can select specific parameters to analyze, speeding up the crawling process and reducing the need for manual filtering. The tool supports up to 10 crawling threads and can handle up to 100,000 crawled URLs.