A snapshot freezes what a crawl found at a moment in time: pages, status codes, metadata and issues. Later crawls can be compared against it.
Snapshots are useful before a migration, a redesign or a big release.
Without a baseline, it is hard to prove what changed and when. A snapshot gives you a before picture.
VisibilityKit Crawler can save snapshots of a crawl and diff a new crawl against a saved snapshot, including through its MCP server. Snapshots are stored on your own machine.
Before any migration, redesign or large release, so you have a baseline.
On your own machine, with the rest of your crawl data.
Comparing two crawls of the same site to see what changed between them.
A crawl that runs automatically on a set schedule instead of being started by hand.
Re-checking a page after a fix ships to confirm, with evidence, that the issue is actually resolved.
Crawl results that are stored on your own machine and never sent to the tool vendor.
A desktop SEO crawler for macOS, Windows and Linux. Find what is broken, assign the work, then verify every fix. Crawl data stays on your machine.
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