Measuring the size of a competitors website?

[SwanseaMedicine]

I think our website is too big, far too many indexed pages. I'd like to do some research on how big our competitors' websites are (how many indexed pages). Is there a way to do this?

Cheers,

Rhys

[Alick300]

Hi,

Do a site: search on Google itself - like "site:google.com" - to return pages of SERPs containing the pages from your competitors site which Google has indexed.

I would also suggest you use screaming frog tool you will get more accurate value here.

Hope this helps.

Thanks

[SwanseaMedicine]

Hi Alick,

I tried that but I only have the free version so we're capped at 500 URLs. Also, the site:search provided 50,000 results, but I know we don't have that many pages. Are there any other tools?

Cheers,

Rhys

[LoganRay]

I highly recommend buying the license for Screaming Frog, at $100/year, you won't find a more valuable SEO tool for the money. You won't find a free (and trustworthy) that will crawl a site that large.

[ViviCa1]

Xenu's Link Sleuth is free so you may want to check that out (not sure just now whether there are any limits with regard to website size) but I also recommend Screaming Frog - it's money well-spent, such a feature rich tool!

[SwanseaMedicine]

Thanks, both!