In Technical SEO part log analysis of search engine bots are very important part of analysis. Deep search engine crawling bot analysis can help you optimise your crawl budget which better site structure, interlinking structure and many more. Here I have listed few Best crawl log analyzer that are available to the market –
- JetOctopus
- Screaming Frog Log File Analyser
- SemRush Log File Analyzer
Log Files
Log files are records of which user agent accessed a website like what content, how many time it accessed. They contain information on who has made the request to access the website (also known as ‘The Client’).
There are some popular search engine bot, such as Googlebot, Bingbot, ChatGPT bot or a person viewing the site. Log file records are collected and kept by the web server of the site for a certain period of time.
- The client IP.
- A timestamp with the date and time of the request.
- The method of accessing the site, which could be either GET or POST.
- The URL that is requested, which contains the page accessed.
- The Status Code of the page requested, which displays the success or failure of the request.
- The User Agent, which contains extra information about the client making the request, including the browser and bot (for example, if it is coming from mobile or desktop).
- The host name.
- The server IP.
- Bytes downloaded.
- The time taken to make the request
Example of Log File
27.300.13.1 – – [22/Jan/2024:15:20:07 -0400] “GET https://allthedogs.com/dog1/ HTTP/1.1” 200 “https://allthedogs.com” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
