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Getting started What CrawlStat is, what it does on your machine, and how to go from a fresh install to your first list of issues in a few minutes.Installing CrawlStat How to download and install CrawlStat on macOS, Windows or Linux, where it keeps its files, and how to remove it cleanly.Your first crawl Start a crawl from the New crawl dialog, choose between Spider, Sitemap and List modes, render JavaScript for sites built with scripts, and use limits and URL patterns to crawl exactly what you need.

Using CrawlStat

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Watching a crawl What a crawl's Overview shows while it runs, what each counter means, and how to pause, resume, stop and pick up an interrupted crawl.The Pages table Find your way around a crawl's Pages tab, including its eleven tabs, the lenses, the filter bar, sorting, choosing columns, the URL detail panel, and exporting to CSV.Issues How CrawlStat's 45 audits work, how the Issues tab ranks them, and how to go from a finding to the pages that need fixing.The plan How CrawlStat ranks findings by impact (link value, pages per fix and severity) so you know what to fix first instead of staring at ten thousand rows.Journeys Simulate a visitor hunting for your pricing, support or sign up page, and find out whether your navigation actually gets them there.Competitor Intelligence Compare your site with up to five competitors and see what they cover that you don't, what to write next, and how ready each site is for AI search.Accessibility The WCAG 2.2 checks CrawlStat runs automatically on every page, the manual checklist it tracks for you, and the honest line between the two.Comparing crawls Crawl, fix, crawl again, and see exactly what moved, what regressed, and which pages started failing.Projects How CrawlStat stores your crawls, and how to browse, open, recrawl, compare, resume and delete them from the Projects screen.Settings Every option on the Settings screen, covering appearance, politeness, user agent, scope, resources and storage, with the defaults and when to change them.Keyboard shortcuts The keyboard shortcuts CrawlStat supports, where each one works, and a note for Windows and Linux users.

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Open source and licence CrawlStat is free and open source under the MIT licence. Every feature is included, with no account, no key and no URL limit.Privacy and your data What CrawlStat stores on your computer, the little it ever sends over the network, and how to back up or delete your data.The crawler and robots.txt How CrawlStat identifies itself, how it reads and obeys robots.txt, how hard it works a server, and what site owners can do if they see CrawlStatBot in their logs.Local AI Have a language model on your own machine write up a crawl or help with Competitor Intelligence, with nothing uploaded and the exact brief shown before it is sent.

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Troubleshooting Fixes for the most common problems, from crawls that find too few pages or hit lots of errors to empty issue lists, report exports and failed exports.FAQ Short answers to the questions people ask most about CrawlStat, including what it costs, what it crawls, JavaScript, client reports, competitors, where data goes, and what it doesn't do yet.

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The audit reference

All 45 checks CrawlStat runs: what each one means and exactly how to fix it.

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