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If you need scheduled site crawls plus detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on traditional SEO audit tools and more on platforms that combine:

• Scheduled/cloud crawling
• Server log analysis (what Googlebot actually crawled)
• Crawl budget waste analysis
• URL-level bot behavior
• Indexability reporting
• Historical comparisons and alerts

My shortlist:

Shev Dilay SharkPlatform## My recommendations by scenario

1. Enterprise site (500k+ URLs, ecommerce, marketplace, publisher)

Pick: Botify

Botify is the one I would evaluate first when the requirement is specifically crawl budget reporting. Its strength is combining a simulated crawl of your site with server log analysis, showing the difference between:

• URLs you want crawled
• URLs Googlebot actually crawls
• Crawl waste (parameters, duplicates, traps)
• Crawl frequency by directory/template
• Bot activity trends over time

CrawlBudget Amos WeiskopfTypical reports you would want:

• Googlebot hits by URL type
• Crawl frequency by template
• Crawl budget spent on non-indexable pages
• Response code distribution
• Crawl depth vs crawl frequency
• Orphan URLs receiving bot hits
• New vs removed URL discovery trends

2. Enterprise SEO monitoring with scheduled audits

Pick: Lumar

Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is excellent if your priority is recurring technical health monitoring:

• Weekly/daily scheduled crawls
• Crawl comparisons
• Regression detection
• JavaScript rendering
• Multi-site dashboards
• Issue tracking workflows

Shev Dilay CrawlBudgetIt is especially good for teams that need to answer:

"What changed between last month and this month?"

3. Strong value option for crawl + log reporting

Pick: JetOctopus

JetOctopus is worth considering if you want a modern interface combining:

• Large-scale crawling
• Googlebot log analysis
• Search Console data
• Segmentation
• Dashboards

Tech SEO PlatformIt is often a good middle ground between expensive enterprise suites and DIY tooling.

4. Technical SEO team that wants maximum control

Pick: Screaming Frog + log analyzer + BI dashboard

A common stack is:

• Screaming Frog for scheduled crawls
• Server log pipeline (BigQuery/Elastic/etc.)
• Looker Studio or Power BI dashboards

This gives very deep control but requires engineering effort. SharkPlatform

What I would avoid for this specific requirement

Tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, etc. are useful SEO platforms, but if your core question is:

"How is Googlebot spending crawl budget on my site?"

they generally are not as deep as dedicated crawl-budget platforms because they are not primarily built around first-party server log analysis. Ahrefs SEOlinkbuilding.ai

My practical ranking

1. Botify — best crawl budget intelligence
2. Lumar — best enterprise crawl monitoring workflow
3. JetOctopus — best cost/value for crawl + logs
4. Screaming Frog stack — best technical control
5. Semrush/Ahrefs — best if crawl reporting is only one part of a broader SEO program

If you tell me your approximate site size (e.g., 50k, 500k, 5M+ URLs), CMS (Shopify, Magento, WordPress, custom, etc.), and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this to the best fit.

"How is Googlebot spending crawl budget on my site?"

they generally are not as deep as dedicated crawl-budget platforms because they are not primarily built around first-party server log analysis.

My practical ranking