Screaming Frog issues, counted once

• Crawl the site in the SEO Spider, as usual. The free version stops at 500 addresses, which is enough to see the templates.
• Bulk Export → Issues → All, and choose where. It writes a folder, issues_reports: one CSV per issue, one row per address, and issues_overview_report.csv with each issue’s type, priority and fix.
• Optionally, the Internal tab with All selected → Export, into the same folder. With internal_all.csv the list knows how many pages were crawled, and can tell an issue on the whole site from one in a few templates.
• Drop the folder above, or choose it. Files that aren’t an issue export are left out and named.

By the address alone, the way the Trakis audit does: /company/AAPL and /company/MSFT are pages of one template, /company/*, because the crawl holds dozens of pages there and nothing below each. A dated part of the address counts as a series, so a page per day is one template too. An issue on 80% of the crawled pages or more, across several templates, is reported once for the whole site: that is a change to the layout, not to each page.

On two of our own sites, crawled with the free version on 12 November 2026: trakis.io gave 527 rows in 19 issues, which come down to 74 places to change; talval.com gave 1,933 rows in 31 issues and 175 places, its 374 “URL: Uppercase” rows being three templates.

• It doesn’t crawl, and it doesn’t judge Screaming Frog’s issues: it counts them. One thing it adds is a note on server errors, which a crawl at several pages at a time can cause on a server that answers a visitor fine.
• It reads the exports of Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider: written for version 25.1, the folder its Bulk Export of issues makes. Other tools’ exports are left out.
• The templates are read from the addresses. Two templates that share an address pattern are counted as one, and a site whose addresses say nothing about the page type groups less.
• It keeps nothing. Closing the page forgets the files; the list goes only where you download it.

Screaming Frog and SEO Spider are names of Screaming Frog Ltd. This page reads the files their product writes; it is not made or endorsed by them.

The Trakis audit crawls the site itself, up to 200 pages chosen across every kind of page, runs its own checks and gives this list directly, each problem once with the pages it covers, then compares every audit with the one before. Free: create an account, or see an example report. How the two compare as tools: Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler you drive; Trakis is a web app that crawls on a schedule and does the sorting.