A web archive file is an

archive file In computing, an archive file is a computer file that is composed of one or more files along with metadata. Archive files are used to collect multiple data files together into a single file for easier portability and storage, or simply to compre ...

that contains the entire content of a web page; some file formats can store more than one web page, such as the

Mozilla Archive Format The Mozilla Archive Format (MAFF) is a legacy Web archive file format that was provided by Firefox through an extension, used to store one or more web pages with their associated audio, video, and other related web resources to a single file. Un ...

. A single web page can contain several resources such as images, animations, scripts, audio, video, etc., all of which are stored in the ''web archive file format'' used. Web archive formats include , .maff, and . webarchive.

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{{Reflist Archive formats