hreflang Tester compared with Ahrefs Site Audit, Screaming Frog and Sistrix| hreflang Tester (technicalseo.com) | Ahrefs Site Audit | Screaming Frog SEO Spider | Sistrix Optimizer |
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| Umfang: It tests a single page and reports its hreflang, http-equiv and HTTP header language settings, along with the online status of the linked language versions. | Umfang: It is a site-wide crawler audit. Hreflang issues appear as part of its report on technical and on-page problems. | Umfang: It is a desktop crawler that audits a whole site for over 300 SEO issues, hreflang among them. | Umfang: The Optimizer crawler checks every page that carries hreflang tags, and it fetches extra URLs beyond the crawl limit when needed to finish those checks. |
| Checks reported: The three implementation methods are compared on one page. Google recommends using a single method, although using two or three causes no SEO penalty. | Checks reported: Documented issues include missing return tags, x-default present on only some pages, several x-default URLs in a group, and mismatches between page code and sitemap. HTTP header checks are not confirmed in the article. | Checks reported: It reports missing return tags, inconsistent or incorrect language codes and hreflang entries that return a non-200 response. | Checks reported: It reports broken hreflang links, invalid language or region codes, missing return links, missing x-default and missing self-reference. |
| Kosten und Grenzen: It is a free online tool. | Kosten und Grenzen: Ahrefs Webmaster Tools offers Site Audit free for verified websites, with 170+ issue types and 5,000 monthly crawl credits per verified project. | Kosten und Grenzen: The free version crawls up to 500 URLs and includes hreflang auditing. A paid licence removes the limit, lasts one year and is per seat. | |
| Plattform: It runs online, without installation. | | Plattform: It runs on Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora). | |