The main difference from Screaming Frog (which is legitimately awesome) is the reporting. Once it has finished crawling it will do a lot of pre-processing for you and build graphs, lists of hints, etc...

I've written a more comprehensive answer to this here: https://sitebulb.com/resources/guides/how-is-sitebulb-differ...

I'm testing Sitebulb right now (trial version). The crawling is kinda slow (I'm on 100mbits fiber). Why did you choose to build eveything from scratch instead of making an application that use the results from other crawlers/spiders (ie: Screaming Frog) and just produce the audit reports?

EDIT:

And after about 3hours of crawl, this is what I got (and no way to resume it):

>Audit Stopped! >The audit stopped early because: Maximum Crawl depth limit of 50 reached

>WARNING: Audit Paused ! The audit is incomplete and did not finish properly.

I left the program running in the background and it resumed itself after a few minutes. I have no idea why as there was no info on the dashboard.

SF is also a lot cheaper. With VAT, you're looking at £705.60 for sitebulb per year, vs £149.00 per year for SF. That's a really big price difference and you'd have to be really sure it's worth it.

In addition SF works on Ubuntu, which is another point in its favour.

I know right, SF is just too cheap for its own good! :p

We think it's a case of horses for courses. Sitebulb has the potential to save you a ton of time when auditing and reporting. If you don't do a lot of that then it might not be a good option for you. If you do, that's where a lot of the value lies.

There's a fully featured 2 week trial to give it a proper go, and the monthly billing means you have the option to switch it on/off as you need it.

Agreed. This seems like SF + Gephi for 7x the price.

We should put that on our homepage.