Save Page As, single-file savers or PagePack: which one should you use?
Three ways to save a web page in Chrome, what each one is good at, and which to pick for archiving, offline reading or studying how a site is built.
There is more than one way to keep a copy of a web page, and they produce very different results. Here is a quick, honest comparison.
1. Chrome's “Save page as”
Press Ctrl + S (Cmd + S on a Mac) and choose “Webpage, Complete”. You get an HTML file plus a folder of files. It is built in and free, but files loaded by scripts or while scrolling are often missing, and the folder structure is flattened.
Best for: a quick copy of a simple page.
2. Single-file extensions
Extensions in this family pack the whole page – images, styles and fonts – into one HTML file. That file is easy to keep and to share, and it opens anywhere.
Best for: reading or archiving articles, keeping a page exactly as it looked.
3. PagePack
PagePack saves every file the page used into one ZIP with the original folders – the HTML, each stylesheet, script, image and font as separate files. You can also save just the images of a page.
Best for: studying how a site is built, reusing your own assets, collecting all the images of a page, handing a project's files to a colleague.
Quick pick
- Want to read it later? A single-file saver.
- Want the actual files – CSS, JS, images, fonts – in their folders? PagePack.
- Want all the pictures of a page? PagePack › Save all images.
- Just once, nothing to install? Chrome's Save page as.
PagePack saves every file of a page – or all its images – into one ZIP with the original folders. Free, private, one click.