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sotheby.com

Sotheby

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

293 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

278 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sotheby.com page load time and found that the first response time was 293 ms and then it took 10.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sotheby.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sotheby.com

293 ms

Sotheby

1157 ms

0d83a92648f1b7825c11da343d4df6.js

310 ms

2f3af3dd54f3b52809a24014de2ab9.css

184 ms

wnmoviecredits.combined.min.20131104.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sotheby.com, 29% (45 requests) were made to I.ytimg.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) relates to the external source Login.wn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (57%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Sotheby.com main page is 3.8 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 995.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 177.8 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 995.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 955.7 kB
  • After minification 923.1 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. Sotheby images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 812.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 429.4 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 812.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 339.2 kB

  • Original 423.9 kB
  • After minification 423.9 kB
  • After compression 84.8 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. Sotheby.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 339.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (36%)

Requests Now

143

After Optimization

91

The browser has sent 143 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sotheby. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 39 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sotheby.com SEO score

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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 Sotheby.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 Sotheby.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 Sotheby. 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: