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Mental Floss

Domain Summary

What is the traffic rank for Mentalfloss.com?

• Mentalfloss.com ranks #48,807 globally on HypeStat.

What percent of global Internet users visit Mentalfloss.com?

• 0.0033248% of global Internet users visit Mentalfloss.com

How many people visit Mentalfloss.com each day?

• Mentalfloss.com receives approximately 163.9K visitors and 322,747 page impressions per day.

Which countries does Mentalfloss.com receive most of its visitors from?

• Mentalfloss.com is mostly visited by people located in United States,United Kingdom,Canada.

How much Mentalfloss.com can earn?

• Mentalfloss.com should earn about $1,467.86/day from advertising revenue.

What is Mentalfloss.com estimated value?

• Estimated value of Mentalfloss.com is $1,609,751.88.

What IP addresses does Mentalfloss.com resolve to?

• Mentalfloss.com resolves to the IP addresses 44.241.188.24.

Where are Mentalfloss.com servers located in?

• Mentalfloss.com has servers located in Boardman, Oregon, 97818, United States.

mentalfloss.com Profile

Title:Mental Floss
Description:Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
Tags:
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Category:News and Media / News and Media
About: Magazine on trivia and interesting facts. Magazine and subscription information new trivia and facts online store. Edit Site Info

What technologies does mentalfloss.com use?

These are the technologies used at mentalfloss.com. mentalfloss.com has a total of 5 technologies installed in 5 different categories.
CDN
Amazon Cloudfront Amazon Cloudfront
Miscellaneous
Open Graph Open Graph
JavaScript Frameworks
React React
Font Scripts
Typekit Typekit
PaaS
Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services

mentalfloss.com Traffic Analysis

Mentalfloss.com is ranked #48,807 in the world. This website is viewed by an estimated 163.9K visitors daily, generating a total of 322.7K pageviews. This equates to about 5M monthly visitors. Mentalfloss.com traffic has increased by 0.06% compared to last month.
Daily Visitors163.9K
0.04%
Monthly Visits5M
0.06%
Pages per Visit1.97
4.38%
Visit duration01:07
13.69%
Bounce Rate73.92%
0.34%
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Daily Unique Visitors:
163,911
Monthly Visits:
4,966,503
Pages per Visit:
1.97
Daily Pageviews:
322,747
Avg. visit duration:
01:07
Bounce rate:
73.92%
Global Reach:
0.0033248%
Monthly Visits (SEMrush):
8,934,974
Monthly Unique Visitors (SEMrush):
6,611,796
Monthly Visits (SimilarWeb):
4,868,658
HypeRank:
48,807
SEMrush Rank:
2,787
SimilarWeb Rank:
16,447
*All traffic values are estimates only.

Traffic sources

Direct:
34.64%
Referral:
3.64%
Search:
52.56%
Social:
8.95%
Paid:
0.20%

Desktop vs Mobile

Desktop:
22.71%
Mobile:
77.29%

Total Visits Last 3 Months

5.5M
AUG
5M
SEP
5M
OCT

Visitors by country

Country
Users%
 
United States 64.74%
 
United Kingdom 6.04%
 
Canada 5.53%
 
Australia 2.69%
 
India 1.66%

Where do visitors go on mentalfloss.com?

 
Reach%Pageviews%PerUser
mentalfloss.com
99.91%99.31%1.6
OTHER
0%0.69%0
Last update was 154 days ago
     
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*HypeStat.com is not promoting or affiliated with mentalfloss.com in any way. Only publicly available statistics data are displayed.

Search Engine Indexes ▼

Search engine indexes are huge databases or collections of net pages that search engines like google like google and yahoo use to retrieve applicable facts while customers carry out searches. These indexes are created through search engines like google and yahoo through crawling and indexing net pages from throughout the internet.
Google Index:
78,400
Bing Index:
2,290
Baidu Index:
39,500

Moz Data ▼

Domain Authority (DA) is a metric developed by Moz. DA is a score that predicts the ranking potential of a website on search engine result pages (SERPs). Moz calculates Domain Authority on a logarithmic scale from 1 to 100, with higher scores indicating a greater likelihood of ranking well in search results. Moz Domain Authority of mentalfloss.com is 90.
Domain Authority:
  90
Page Authority:
  66
MozRank:
  7

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SEMrush is a complete on line advertising and marketing platform that gives a extensive variety of gear and functions to help companies and entrepreneurs in enhancing their on line visibility and optimizing their virtual advertising and marketing strategies.
SemRushSemRush
Domain:
  mentalfloss.com
Rank:
(Rank based on keywords, cost and organic traffic)
  2,787
Organic Keywords:
(Number of keywords in top 20 Google SERP)
  1,333,136
Organic Traffic:
(Number of visitors coming from top 20 search results)
  966,507
Organic Cost:
((How much need to spend if get same number of visitors from Google Adwords)
  $307,022.00
Full SEMrush Report >>

Revenue report ▼

Google.com would generate approximately $1.5K per day if the source of income were advertisements, which equates to an estimated monthly revenue of $44K and annual gross revenue of approximately $535.8K. Based on these figures, the site's net worth is estimated at around $1.6M.

How much would mentalfloss.com make?

Daily Revenue:
$1,467.86
Monthly Revenue:
$44,035.80
Yearly Revenue:
$535,768.90
*All earnings values are estimates only.

Daily earning by country

 
CountryPageviewsEarning
 
United States 208,947$1,009.21
 
Canada 17,843$107.77
 
United Kingdom 19,493$52.24
 
Australia 8,695$41.91
 
India 5,343$2.03

Loss of money due to Adblock?

Daily Revenue Loss:
$225.91
Monthly Revenue Loss:
$6,777.31
Yearly Revenue Loss:
$82,457.33
Daily Pageviews Blocked:
48,425
Monthly Pageviews Blocked:
1,452,753
Yearly Pageviews Blocked:
17,675,161

Daily revenue loss by country

 
CountryBlockedLost Money
 
United States 37,610$181.66
 
Canada 4,461$26.94
 
Australia 1,739$8.38
 
United Kingdom 3,119$8.36
 
India 1,496$0.57

How much is mentalfloss.com worth?

Website Value:
$1.6M

Ad Experience Report ▼

Summary of the ad experience rating of a website for a specific platform.

Mobile summary

Root domain:
mentalfloss.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-17 15:32:42
Ad filtering:
(Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.)
Passing

Desktop summary

Root domain:
mentalfloss.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-17 15:32:42
Ad filtering:
(Chrome is not filtering ads on your site.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site that is reviewed for the Better Ads Standards.)
Passing

Abusive Experience Report ▼

Summary of the abusive experience rating of a website.
Root domain:
mentalfloss.com
Last Change Time:
(The last time that the site changed status.)
2018-10-17 15:32:43
Enforcement:
(Chrome is not preventing your site from opening new windows or tabs.)
Off
Status:
(The status of the site reviewed for the abusive experiences.)
Passing

Where is mentalfloss.com hosted? ▼

Mentalfloss.com may be hosted in multiple data centers distributed in different locations around the world. This is probably just one of them.
Server IP:
44.241.188.24
ASN:
AS16509 
ISP:
Amazon.com, Inc. 
Server Location:
Boardman
Oregon, OR
97818
United States, US
 

Other sites hosted on 44.241.188.24

How fast does mentalfloss.com load? ▼

The average loading time of mentalfloss.com is 735 ms. The Desktop speed index is 72 and mobile speed index is 28.
Average Load Time:
735 ms

Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Desktop

72
0-49 50-89 90-100 i

Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)0 0% of loads for this page have a fast (<0s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 0% 0% of loads for this page have an average (0s ~ 0s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 0% 0% of loads for this page have a slow (>0s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 0%
First Input Delay (FID)0 0% of loads for this page have a fast (<0ms) First Input Delay (FID) 0% 0% of loads for this page have an average (0ms ~ 0ms) First Input Delay (FID) 0% 0% of loads for this page have a slow (>0ms) First Input Delay (FID) 0%

Origin Data

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Lab Data


Page Speed (Google PageSpeed Insights) - Mobile

28
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Field Data

Over the last 30 days, the field data shows that this page has a AVERAGE speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report.We are showing the 90th percentile of FCP and the 95th percentile of FID.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.8s 0% of loads for this page have a fast (<1.8s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 76% 13% of loads for this page have an average (1.8s ~ 3s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 13% 9% of loads for this page have a slow (>3s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 9%
First Input Delay (FID)17ms 91% of loads for this page have a fast (<100ms) First Input Delay (FID) 91% 5% of loads for this page have an average (100ms ~ 300ms) First Input Delay (FID) 5% 3% of loads for this page have a slow (>300ms) First Input Delay (FID) 3%

Origin Data

All pages served from this origin have an SLOW speed compared to other pages in the Chrome User Experience Report. over the last 30 days.To view suggestions tailored to each page, analyze individual page URLs.

First Contentful Paint (FCP)1.6s 80% of loads for this page have a fast (<1.8s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 80% 12% of loads for this page have an average (1.8s ~ 3s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 12% 7% of loads for this page have a slow (>3s) First Contentful Paint (FCP) 7%
First Input Delay (FID)63ms 0% of loads for this page have a fast (<100ms) First Input Delay (FID) 81% 12% of loads for this page have an average 100ms ~ 300ms) First Input Delay (FID) 12% 6% of loads for this page have a slow (>300ms) First Input Delay (FID) 6%

Lab Data

Time to Interactive 18.9 s
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Timing budget  
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First Meaningful Paint 3.6 s
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Largest Contentful Paint 6.2 s
Largest Contentful Paint marks the time at which the largest text or image is painted. Learn more
Total Blocking Time 2,160 ms
Sum of all time periods between FCP and Time to Interactive, when task length exceeded 50ms, expressed in milliseconds. Learn more
Lazy load third-party resources with facades  
Some third-party embeds can be lazy loaded. Consider replacing them with a facade until they are required. Learn more
First Contentful Paint 3.4 s
First Contentful Paint marks the time at which the first text or image is painted. Learn more
Speed Index 6.1 s
Speed Index shows how quickly the contents of a page are visibly populated. Learn more
First Contentful Paint (3G) 6720 ms
First Contentful Paint 3G marks the time at which the first text or image is painted while on a 3G network. Learn more
Performance budget  
Keep the quantity and size of network requests under the targets set by the provided performance budget. Learn more
Has a `<meta name="viewport">` tag with `width` or `initial-scale`  
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Max Potential First Input Delay 850 ms
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Does mentalfloss.com use compression? ▼

Website compression is the process of reducing the size of website files, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files, to improve website performance and load times. Compressing website files can significantly reduce the amount of data that needs to be transferred from the server to the user's browser, resulting in faster page load times and improved user experience. Files on mentalfloss.com are reduced by 84%.
mentalfloss.com use gzip compression.
Original size: 412.15 KB
Compressed size: 63.03 KB
File reduced by: 349.12 KB (84%)

Google Safe Browsing ▼

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This site is not currently listed as suspicious

MyWot.com Reputation Ratings

MyWOT (short for "My Web of Trust") is a web-based reputation and rating service that provides users with information about the trustworthiness and safety of websites. mentalfloss.com has 92 Safety Reputations.
Status:
  SAFE
Safety Reputations:
  92
Safety Confidence:
  52
Child Safety Reputations:
  90
Child Safety Confidence:
  48

SSL Checker - SSL Certificate Verify ▼

An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) certificate is a digital certificate that establishes a secure encrypted connection between a web server and a user's web browser. It provides authentication and encryption, ensuring that data transmitted between the server and the browser remains private and protected. mentalfloss.com supports HTTPS.
 mentalfloss.com supports HTTPS
     
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Common Name: api.12up.com
Organization:
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Valid from: May 19 00:00:00 2023 GMT
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Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: Amazon RSA 2048 M01
Organization: Amazon
Location: US
Issuer: Amazon Root CA 1
Valid from: Aug 23 22:21:28 2022 GMT
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Keysize: 2048 Bits
Common Name: Amazon Root CA 1
Organization: Amazon
Location: US
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Valid from: May 25 12:00:00 2015 GMT
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Common Name: Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
Organization: "Starfield Technologies, Inc."
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona, US
Issuer:
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Authority: CA:TRUE
Keysize: 2048 Bits

Verify HTTP/2 Support ▼

HTTP/2 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2) is a major revision of the HTTP protocol, which is the foundation of data communication on the World Wide Web. It was developed as an improvement over the previous HTTP/1.1 version to enhance web performance and efficiency.
 mentalfloss.com supports HTTP/2
     
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Site Categories ▼

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Http Header ▼

HTTP headers are extra portions of records despatched among a consumer (which include an internet browser) and a server at some stage in an HTTP request or response. They offer instructions, metadata, or manipulate parameters for the conversation among the consumer and server. 
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DNS Lookup ▼

DNS entries (Domain Name System) are a critical component of the Internet infrastructure. They act as directories that translate human-readable domain names (such as example.com) to machine-readable IP addresses. DNS records are stored on DNS servers and help forward internet traffic efficiently.
Type Ip Target/Txt TTL
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Whois Lookup ▼

Domain WHOIS is a public database that provides information about domain names, including registered owners, contact information, domain registrars, registration and expiration dates, name servers, and other relevant information. Domain registration for this website began on April 8, 1996 and will expire on April 9, 2025 if not renewed. This website is now assigned through the registrar GoDaddy.com, LLC. The WHOIS data for this website's domain was last updated on September 27, 2018.
Domain Created:
1996-04-08
Domain Expires:
2025-04-09
Domain Updated:
2018-09-27
Domain Age:
28 years 11 days
Domain Registrar:
GoDaddy.com, LLC
Domain Owner:
Domains By Proxy, LLC
WhoIs:
 

Domain Name: mentalfloss.com
Registry Domain ID: 5591259_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
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Registrar URL: https://www.godaddy.com
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Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505
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