Guides on copying, rebuilding and archiving websites

Every number on these pages comes from our own reproducible benchmark (npm run bench:rivals), rendered with the original server unreachable.

2026-09-03

How to archive a webpage as evidence

What makes a page capture credible later: format, metadata, completeness, and the mistakes that make an archive easy to dismiss.

2026-09-03

The best website copiers in 2026, measured

HTTrack, wget, SingleFile, monolith, SiteSucker and CopyAnySite — what each is for, with fidelity scores measured offline.

2026-09-03

How to convert any website into an editable WordPress page

Turn a captured page into Gutenberg section blocks with its real CSS, fonts and images — editable in the block editor instead of pasted into a Custom HTML block.

2026-09-03

How to copy a landing page you like (properly)

A repeatable process for taking a landing page you admire and turning it into your own, without shipping their fonts, images or words.

2026-09-03

Why fonts and logos break when you copy a website (and how to fix it)

The nine places a logo hides, the font race that silently reflows your copy, and how to check both survived before you rely on the file.

2026-09-03

Copying a website with AI: what actually works and what it invents

Screenshot-to-code tools rewrite a page from pixels. What they get right, what they hallucinate, and how to hand them a real capture instead.

2026-09-03

How to download an entire website

Crawl and copy a whole site — the flags that matter for wget and HTTrack, why client-rendered sites need a browser, and how to stay polite while doing it.

2026-09-03

How to copy a website (and what "a copy" actually means)

Six real ways to copy a website, what each one keeps and drops, and how to check your copy survives once the original server is gone.

2026-09-03

Is it legal to copy a website?

What copyright, trademark and font licences say about copying a page: the routine uses, the risky ones, and a checklist before you publish.

2026-09-03

How to save a webpage as a single HTML file

Why Ctrl+S gives you a folder and a half-broken page, and how to get one self-contained HTML file with its fonts, images and CSS embedded.

2026-09-03

Web scraping vs page capture: two different jobs

Scrapers extract data and throw the page away. Capture keeps the page and ignores the data. Picking the wrong one wastes weeks.

2026-09-03

Turning a real page into something Bolt, Lovable or Cursor can build from

Screenshots make coding agents guess. A capture — markup, extracted CSS, asset manifest, spec — makes them accurate. How to produce and use one.