User Interface

Chris Jones

Posted 16 July, 2021 by Chris Jones in

User Interface

Theme

File > Settings > User Interface (Windows, Linux)
Screaming Frog SEO Spider > Settings > User Interface (macOS)

The SEO Spider has two themes, a Light mode and a Dark mode. This can be modified under:

Tabs

Tabs can re-ordered by dragging and dropping them into new positions with the mouse. This is applicable to the tabs in the lower window as well as the main window.

These can be hidden by right clicking on any tab and choosing ‘Close’, Close Others’ will hide all tabs but the selected one, and ‘Close All’ will hide all the tabs.

Tab visibility can be managed from the ⌄ dropdown to the right of the tabs, where tabs can be checked or unchecked.

The visibility and order of all tabs can be modified in the ‘Configure Tabs’ menu accessed from this same dropdown.

Tabs can be reset to their default visibility and position from this menu, the previous dropdown, and also via ‘View > Reset Tabs’.

Columns

Columns can be repositioned by dragging and dropping them to a desired position.

These can be hidden by using the + menu to the right of the column row in the main window, where columns can be checked or unchecked.

The visibility and order of columns can be managed ‘Configure Columns’ menu accessed from this same dropdown.

Columns can be reset to their default visibility and position via this menu, the previous dropdown, and ‘View > Reset Columns for All Tables’.

Resize Panes

It’s possible to resize the right and lower windows by selecting the panes between them and dragging them to a preferred size.

Focus Mode

View > Focus Mode

‘Focus mode’ automatically hides tabs that are not in use to help reduce clutter.

By default, regardless of configuration, all tabs are displayed in the UI.

However, when ‘focus mode’ is enabled, only tabs that are required based upon the config will remain open. So tabs such as ‘Stuctured Data’, ‘Sitemaps’, or ‘Custom Extraction’ will be hidden if their respective configs are not enabled.

This reduces the number of main window tabs, and lower details tabs.