Best Practice Question: Web Archive vs. Rich Note Clip Cmd-)

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I have a question regarding the capture of a small-ish web page (in particular it is a “view printable” link for a news story) with a total word count under 500 words.

Is it better to capture these types of pages with the web-archive bookmarklet or by highlighting the text and taking rich note via the services menu shortcut?

I understand that in a crowded, add-ridden, webpage the archive bookmarklet will pick up all the extras and the highlight/services menu method will be more selective. What (if any) is the functional difference between the two methods when the crowded, add-ridden content is factored out of the equation?

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As concerns searching and analysis of the text of such captures there’s no significant difference between the rich text and Webarchive captures.

File size can differ, though. I just captured the printer-friendly version of a New York Times article, first as a rich text note of selected text and then as a WebArchive.

The rich text note is 22 KB. The WebArchive is 170 kB. Note that even the printer-friendly pages may contain logo images.

I usually make rich text captures of selected text/images.