EngineeringScoreAlternatives
How EngineeringScore compares to the tools people already use, including the jobs it doesn't do.
- Screaming FrogRead more
Free Screaming Frog alternative
A deep technical read of one page: response headers, HTTPS and redirect behaviour, cookies and their attributes, page weight and asset breakdown, SEO basics, and an accessibility pass, in one report that explains each finding rather than listing it.
Won't replace Crawling your site. Screaming Frog walks the URLs it discovers from a starting point; we read the single page you name and follow none of its links, so a problem on a page you did not name is a problem we never saw.
- SemrushRead more
Free Semrush alternative
One page, examined once, across all of it: what the response headers say, whether HTTPS and the redirect behave, which cookies were set and how they are scoped, how heavy the page is and which class of asset made it heavy, what the SEO tags contain, and what axe-core found in the markup.
Won't replace Everything Semrush is a platform for. Its own product menu lists Technical Site Health beside Keyword Research, Competitor Analysis, Backlink Analysis, Rank Tracking and Content Creation. Site Audit is one item in that list, and it is the only one this scan touches at all.
- AhrefsRead more
Free Ahrefs alternative
Checking a page you have not verified and may not own, if Ahrefs Webmaster Tools is the part of Ahrefs you are using. That product offers free website analytics, technical audit and SEO metrics for your verified websites, and its FAQ says analysing unverified, competing websites is what its subscription plans are for. We have not tested every free tool Ahrefs publishes, and some of them do accept a URL without verification, so this is a limit of Webmaster Tools rather than of Ahrefs as a whole. Paste any public URL here and it gets scanned.
Won't replace The reason most people open Ahrefs at all: the backlink index, Keywords Explorer, Rank Tracker and Content Gap. Its Webmaster Tools page says Ahrefs Free covers three tools, Web Analytics, Site Audit and Site Explorer, and points at its Starter plan for extended access to Site Explorer, Site Audit, Keywords Explorer and more.
- Pingdom ToolsRead more
Free Pingdom Tools alternative
Load time and page weight for one URL, measured in a real browser: total transferred bytes, request count, oversized images, and the browser's own loadEventEnd milestone on a cold cache.
Won't replace Uptime monitoring. Pingdom Tools is the free test in front of a paid monitoring product, and Pingdom's uptime monitoring page describes testing your site's availability from servers around the world and double-checking an error before it tells you. We run one scan when you ask for one and say nothing at all in between.
- GTmetrixRead more
Free GTmetrix alternative
Performance grading and asset breakdown for one URL: total transferred bytes split by asset class, request count judged against the protocol the page's own requests actually negotiated, images over 300,000 bytes, text assets served without compression, static assets served without Cache-Control, and the browser's own load milestone.
Won't replace Video capture of the load. The GTmetrix features page lists Video Playback among its analysis options, described as experiencing what your visitors experience through video playback of your page load, and its home page lists a Speed Visualization (Filmstrip) among what a report contains. We produce words and numbers.
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