Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

overstock.com

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Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

247 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

3.9 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Overstock.com page load time and found that the first response time was 247 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

overstock.com performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,810 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.068

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

overstock.com

247 ms

www.bedbathandbeyond.com

510 ms

aksb.min.js

186 ms

01012023_910x60_SalesDealsBanner.svg

98 ms

overstock-desktop-header.69e07ac310c838c1b723ec38b6fe889ac5fdd7d3a6b06d08d5a3b3537aaf3db8.js

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Overstock.com, 83% (30 requests) were made to Ak1.ostkcdn.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Bedbathandbeyond.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (510 ms) relates to the external source Bedbathandbeyond.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (73%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

514.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Overstock.com main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 201.5 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 65.3 kB
  • After minification 65.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Overstock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 280.0 kB

  • Original 514.2 kB
  • After minification 513.6 kB
  • After compression 234.2 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 280.0 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 45.2 kB
  • After compression 13.0 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Overstock.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (68%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Overstock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

overstock.com accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

overstock.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

overstock.com SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Overstock.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Overstock.com main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Overstock. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: