How do I compare before/after crawls?

[henry_p]

I'm doing a link building sprint and want to measure the PageRank improvement for my target pages. What's the best workflow for before/after comparison in LinkJuice?

[Kate M.]

Export your results table to CSV before the sprint (Download Results button). After the sprint, upload the new Screaming Frog export and use the Compare tab — paste in your baseline CSV and LinkJuice will show delta columns for PageRank, inbound link count and crawl depth for every URL.

Focus on your target pages: if their PageRank score increased by 0.2+ after adding internal links from hub pages, the intervention worked.

[James]

Has anyone tried combining the LinkJuice export with a PageSpeed Insights run? We added CWV scores as a third column to the export and now we prioritise pages that have both poor internal linking AND poor Core Web Vitals — those are the ones crawlers struggle with most.

[Emma]

We do quarterly internal link audits now. The before/after comparison feature is genuinely useful — I can show my client a concrete 'your PageRank went from 0.4 to 1.1' for the target page after our linking sprint. Much easier to justify the work than just showing ranking screenshots.