SEO by Daniel vs OnCrawl

OnCrawl is cloud technical SEO software. It pulls crawl data, server logs and ranking data into one place so a specialist can explain why Google is not crawling a large site properly. SEO by Daniel is a scored audit you run from one URL and hand to a client. OnCrawl assumes you have log files and the patience to read them. SEO by Daniel assumes you have a client waiting for a number.

Where OnCrawl wins

• Log-file analysis. OnCrawl reads your server logs and shows how Googlebot actually spends its crawl budget. Most audit tools never see a log line.
• Data fusion. Crawl data, server logs and ranking data sit in one view, so a ranking drop and a crawl problem can be read together.
• Configurability. You can build segments and crawl settings for sites with millions of URLs. It is a specialist tool and it does not pretend otherwise.
• Built for teams. In-house technical SEOs and large agencies use it as a shared workspace rather than a one-off report generator.
• No score to explain away. If your audience is other SEOs, raw crawl and log depth is the point. OnCrawl gives them that.

Where SEO by Daniel wins

• Instant score. Drop in a domain and get a 0-100 homepage score in about two seconds. No crawl setup, no log export, no account.
• Sitemap auto-discovery. We read robots.txt, follow nested sitemap indexes and handle gzipped sitemaps, so the crawl covers the site without you listing URLs.
• A report built for clients. Executive summary, issues grouped by severity and CSV export. OnCrawl is a workspace for you. This is a document for them.
• Monitoring at €19/month. We re-scan on a schedule and flag regressions. OnCrawl monitoring sits behind its own quote, which is demo-gated.
• Start without a sales call. OnCrawl does not publish standard pricing, so check their current plans. SEO by Daniel lists every tier publicly.

A real example

You are the in-house technical SEO at an online retailer with 400,000 product URLs. Google is crawling the faceted pages more than the products and rankings are slipping. This is OnCrawl's home turf. You export a week of server logs, load them in, and see Googlebot burning most of its budget on filter combinations that return thin content. You tighten the robots.txt rules and noindex the worst facets. That work needs log files and a tool that can read them. SEO by Daniel will not do it, and it should not try.

The same retailer has a marketing manager who needs a one-page health check for Monday's meeting. The agency that shipped the new category templates wants to know if they launched clean. There are no log files for either question, and nobody is going to learn OnCrawl to answer them. Run SEO by Daniel on the domain, get a 0-100 score and a severity-grouped list in about two seconds, then export the CSV. One report goes to the client, one stays in your tracker.

The two tools answer different questions. OnCrawl answers why the crawl is going wrong on a huge site. SEO by Daniel answers what is broken on this site right now, and how do I show someone. Running both adds no overlap to the work.

The verdict

| | OnCrawl | SEO by Daniel | |---|---|---| | Best for | Log-file and crawl-budget forensics | Scored reports for clients | | Reads server logs | Yes | No | | Free scan without an account | No | Yes | | Setup before first result | Crawl and log export | One URL | | Client-ready report | No, a data workspace | Executive summary, severity grouping, CSV | | Pricing | Demo-gated, check current plans | €19/mo entry | | Time to first output | Hours to days | About two seconds |

When to pick which

Pick OnCrawl when you are a technical SEO specialist working on a large site and the question is about crawl budget or server logs. If your job is to find why Google is wasting its crawl, OnCrawl can answer it and a scored report cannot.

Pick SEO by Daniel when you need a whole-site score and a client-ready report without a demo or a contract. If the deliverable is a document a client reads, or you want monitoring on a schedule, the €19 entry tier covers it. Many freelancers keep both: OnCrawl for the deep dive on the one client who needs it, SEO by Daniel for everyone else.

FAQ

Does SEO by Daniel read server logs? No. Log-file analysis is OnCrawl's strength and we do not do it. If crawl-budget forensics is the job, use OnCrawl.

Can OnCrawl produce a client-ready report? OnCrawl is an analysis platform, so the output is raw data you shape into a deliverable. SEO by Daniel produces the executive summary and severity grouping from the start.

How much does OnCrawl cost? OnCrawl does not publish standard pricing on its site, so check their current plans. SEO by Daniel starts at €19/month, listed publicly, with a 14-day trial and no credit card.

Run a free scan on one of your client domains and see the scored report before you decide.