Guides on copying, rebuilding and archiving websites

Copying a web page sounds like one job and is really four: reading what the browser rendered rather than what the server sent, collecting every asset the page depends on, rewriting the references so nothing points home any more, and choosing an output format you can still work with afterwards. Almost every complaint about a “broken copy” traces back to one of those four steps being skipped.

The guides here work through them one at a time — copying a single page, mirroring a whole site, turning a captured page into editable WordPress blocks, handing a page to a coding agent, and what copyright actually permits once you have the files.

Where a guide quotes a fidelity number, that number comes from the same harness as our comparisons: the copy is re-rendered with the original origin blocked and diffed pixel by pixel against the live page. Where a tool beats us, the guide says so — the free options are genuinely good at the pages they were designed for.