The phrase "attributed the overall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the assignment of a particular quality, characteristic, or outcome to a specific cause or factor in a broader context.
Example: "The researchers attributed the overall success of the project to the team's collaborative efforts and innovative strategies."
Alternatives: "ascribed the overall" or "credited the overall".
The music industry has attributed the overall drop in music sales to a variety of factors, including a soft economy and fewer hit songs.
Al Mottur, who leads the lobbying group at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, attributed the overall stagnating market to a "hangover effect" from the last Congress.
The ERA's Kim Bayley attributed the overall drop in music sales in 2013, in part, to "a weak release schedule".
While sales and attendances dropped during the Olympic weeks, Solt attributed the overall growth during 2012 to "a very strong first half of the year and good autumn sales".
Sheriff's officials attributed the overall decline to a sharp drop in residential and commercial burglaries in cities under the sheriff's jurisdiction--Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai and Thousand Oaks.
Police attributed the overall reduction in property crimes to beat officers who focused on crime prevention education in areas that have been targeted in recent years, urging residents to keep their doors locked and garages closed.
It's tempting to attribute the overall drop to the rise in popularity of gym memberships and healthy eating.
It starts with the ideal: In principle, we could analyse all the numerous knock-on behavioural effects of each policy measure and attribute the overall impact on the public finances to that measure, a process known as 'dynamic scoring'.
The challenge is to provide a fair and predictable model to attribute the overall energy costs per virtual machine (VM) in heterogeneous environments.
Researchers are divided between those that support basic-oxygen-containing groups as main responsible of carbon basicity and those that attribute the overall basicity of a carbon to the delocalized π-electrons of the basal planes.
The company is attributing the overall rise to the increasing profitability of search advertisements.
