Sitebulb

Sitebulb

The website auditing tool for SEO consultants and agencies

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Sitebulb is a multi-award winning desktop website crawler that delivers enterprise level analysis. Sitebulb is an extremely powerful website crawler 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.
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Patrick Hathaway
Hi everyone, I'm the co-founder of Sitebulb. Myself and Gareth (the other co-founder) will be on-hand all day to answer any questions. We started Sitebulb with a vision of creating a website crawler that combines the power and reporting functionality of a cloud-based crawler, with the cost and convenience of a desktop one. Some of the specific pain points we’re addressing are: 1. Scale – Sitebulb saves to a database rather than storing crawl data in RAM, meaning a typical desktop computer can comfortably crawl 500,000+ page websites. 2. Reporting – the reports are designed to highlight potential issues and help SEOs get to the root of the problem without having to manipulate a ton of data. 3. Visualization – Sitebulb’s interactive Crawl Maps help solve one of the most pervasive issues with technical SEO: understanding and communicating website structure. It’s always been important to us that our products are affordable to pretty much anyone doing SEO, which is one of the reasons we’ve focused on desktop products. Our ultimate goal is to help small agencies and consultants do amazing technical SEO work. There's a free 2 week trial for everyone, with no credit card required - just head over to the site and download. If you've got feedback about the tool; we'd love to hear from you. Patrick P.S. Thanks @riaface for Hunting us!
Peyton Hayslette
This looks really awesome. Solid mix of visualization and presentation of opportunities for improvement. Excited to give it a whirl!
Patrick Hathaway
@peytonhayslette Thanks Peyton, glad you like the look of it. Any questions just ping me.
Paul Shapiro
My favorite part of Sitebulb, especially compared to other, similar products has been the organization of the crawl information. It's just a little bit more in-line with what I'm looking for when auditing a website for any issues.
Patrick Hathaway
@fighto Thanks for the comment Paul. We tried as best we could to approach it from the perspective of: 'when doing an audit for SEO, how do users work through each section.' Although we had to rip it apart and put it back together again more than a few times!
Stacey MacNaught
Looks great, guys. Quick question - realistically, on a site with say 100,000 URLs (so not absolutely huge) how long would you expect a complete crawl to take?
Patrick Hathaway
@staceycav Hey Stacey. Well, that question is a little bit like 'how long is a piece of string'. There are a number of variables that affect how long a crawl will take, the biggest one obviously being how many URLs there are. And a site with 100,000 URLs indexed in Google could easily have 300,000 URLs when you include resources, external links etc... But for the sake of argument let's call it 100,000 HTML URLs in total, with no page resources switched on. On most websites it's not healthy (not to mention polite) to crawl TOO fast, so we recommend a speed of 5 URLs/second. At that rate you can crawl a 100k site in about 6 hours (including time to build the reports at the end). However, sometimes even 5 URLs/second is too fast for some websites, and can cause the server to slowdown. Sitebulb is able to detect this and slow it's crawling rate down, so as not to cause any user disruption. For example, I crawled a 100k page site the other day and it took almost exactly 12 hours (~2.8 URLs/second). I've written more on all this here: https://sitebulb.com/resources/g... Thanks for the question!
Tom Davenport
I've been using the beta of this product and it's fantastic. Has replaced Deep Crawl, the former gold standard in technical SEO crawl tools, and gives a nice clear overview of issues to fix. I'm sure there's more to come and they've been responsive to feedback and bugs through the beta, so looking forward to seeing how Sitebulb continues to improve in future. Question for you @hathawayp; where do you see Sitebulb going in the future? Any features you were keen to include that didn't make it to this initial launch?
Patrick Hathaway
@tomdavenport Hey Tom, thanks for the kind words :) There are a few big features which we are really keen to build, which definitely seem to be in demand based on our feedback so far: - 'Printable' Reports: Generating PDF reports automatically for users, either to be shared internally or sent to clients. - Segments: Allowing users to segment their site based on page type (e.g. 'products', 'blog posts') and building reports/drilldowns based on these segments. - Scheduling: Allowing users not only to queue (as they can now) but also to schedule crawls to run at a specific time.
Wayne Barker

Ive been using this as a beta user for some time and for the price you arent going to find anything else that points you in the right direction like sitebulb does. It makes complex technical issue easier to understand and the exports are super organised.

Pros:

Simple to use. Easy to understand

Cons:

Segmentation ;)

Patrick Hathaway
Segments are on their way!
Joe Sinkwitz
My agency has been a beta user for the last 6 months and we're pleased with where the product is at. It's better than certain loud amphibians and tech crawlers named after evil space aliens.
Patrick Hathaway
LOL thanks @cygnusseo - and thanks for your assistance with our launch and throughout the beta. So many helpful people in our community :)
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