Rendered page screen shots

Dan Sharp

Posted 12 December, 2016 by in

Rendered page screen shots

Configuration > Spider > Rendering > JavaScript > Rendered Page Screenshots

This configuration is enabled by default when selecting JavaScript rendering and means screenshots are captured of rendered pages, which can be viewed in the ‘Rendered Page‘ tab, in the lower window pane.

You can select various window sizes from Googlebot desktop, Googlebot Smartphone and various other devices.

These can be customised with the following options:

  • Width & Height – Used to set custom window sizes.
  • Scaling Factor – Increases the scaling used for the screenshots. Better emulates devices with higher pixel densities.
  • Mobile – Chrome flag to indicate the screen is for a mobile device.
  • Touch Enabled – Chrome flag to indicate the device is touch enabled.
  • Resize to Content – When enabled the Spider will resize the browser window the screenshot is taken in to try and capture the full page length in the screenshot (up to 8192 pixels). When unchecked this will just screenshot the top of the page in a window at the specified resolution.
  • Window Resize Time – How long after the window is resized the screenshot of the page is taken is taken.

The rendered screenshots are viewable within the ‘C:\Users\User Name\.ScreamingFrogSEOSpider\screenshots-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX’ folder, and can be exported via the ‘Bulk Export > Web > Screenshots’ top level menu, to save navigating, copying and pasting.


Dan Sharp is founder & Director of Screaming Frog. He has developed search strategies for a variety of clients from international brands to small and medium-sized businesses and designed and managed the build of the innovative SEO Spider software.

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