diff --git a/lib/index.js b/lib/index.js
index 0c2573b..dc6fbea 100644
--- a/lib/index.js
+++ b/lib/index.js
@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ class PuppeteerPlugin {
 				await page.close();
 
 				// convert utf-8 -> binary string because website-scraper needs binary
-				return Buffer.from(content).toString('binary');
+				// https://github.com/website-scraper/node-website-scraper?tab=readme-ov-file#afterresponse: (binary) This is advised against because of the binary assumption being made can foul up saving of utf8 responses to the filesystem.
+				return {
+					body: content,
+					encoding: 'utf8'
+				};
 			} else {
 				return response.body;
 			}