PDFability
How well does the web print? PDFability scores how cleanly any web page converts to a clean, readable PDF, and shows how PrintFriendly compares to native browser print.
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Top-performing websites
The sites that convert most cleanly from web to PDF, ranked by visual score.
| # | Site | Category | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corporation | Computing | 90 |
| 2 | World Wide Web Consortium | Computing | 90 |
| 3 | PayPal | Business | 90 |
| 4 | Google Blog | Artificial Intelligence | 90 |
| 5 | Springer Nature | Biological Sciences | 90 |
| 6 | Statista | Business | 90 |
| 7 | GOV.UK | Politics | 90 |
| 8 | California State Government | Politics | 90 |
| 9 | All About Cookies | Computing | 90 |
| 10 | Wikipedia | Online Education | 88 |
What is PDFability?
PDFability is a measurement of how well a web page can be saved or printed as a clean PDF. We compare native browser print output to PrintFriendly across thousands of sites and assign each domain a score from 0–100 based on layout fidelity, ad and clutter removal, image preservation, and reading flow.
How scoring works
We compare
- Native browser print output
- PrintFriendly's cleaned-up output
- Image and chart preservation
- Reading order and column flow
We measure
- Layout fidelity vs. the on-screen page
- How much ad and chrome is removed
- Page count and ink usage
- Typography legibility on paper
Why the score matters
A high PDFability score means readers, students, and researchers can save and share your content offline without losing layout, images, or readability. A low score means valuable content disappears the moment someone hits print. PrintFriendly closes that gap.
Frequently asked questions
- How is the PDFability score calculated?
- Each site is fetched, rendered with both the native browser print path and PrintFriendly, then scored 0–100 on layout fidelity, ad and clutter removal, image preservation, and reading flow.
- How often are scores updated?
- Reports are regenerated when a site's structure changes meaningfully or on a periodic refresh cycle. Each domain page shows when its report was last published.
- Can I request a site to be scored?
- Enter the URL on the hub. If it's already scored, you'll land on its report; if not, we use that signal to prioritize new sites in the next batch.
- Why does PrintFriendly score higher than native print?
- Native browser print includes ads, navigation, comments, and other page chrome that don't belong on paper. PrintFriendly extracts the article body and renders it for paper-first reading.
- Where does the data come from?
- We crawl the public web with a permissions-respecting fetcher, render both versions in a headless browser, and grade the outputs. The full methodology lives on this page.