How is crawlscore different from Google Webmaster Tools?

Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) is a very handy application and it's free. You can, and you should, sign up here : www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

crawlscore differs in a number of ways but in essence we believe that our software is more comprehensive and easier to use. We are able to crawl a complete site in a fairly short period of time - apart from anything else this is because we don't have billions of websites to crawl unlike Google!

We will have a comparision matrix here so you can see the key differences but it has to be said, we feel that CrawlScore compliments GWT. You can use crawlscore to ensure your site is crawlable and then, in due course, this should be reflected in GWT.

As an example, you might run crawlscore on your 100 page website today, it should be fully crawled and completed reports available the next day. You can then make the necessary changes (if required) and then re-crawl to see if your changes worked. To do this in GWT could take months.

Obviously crawlscore shows a lot of information that is currently outside of the remit of GWT. For Google to start talking about factors such as Javascript, page size and so on could be a mine field for them.