Website traffic
How much traffic does mentalfloss.com get?
4.51M
-3.08%MoMEstimated monthly visits
5.02M3.35M1.67M0
Global rank
15,825
Country rank · United States
4,195
Category rank · News and Media
197
Average visit duration
01:26
Pages per visit
1.96
Bounce rate
68.48%
Domain age
30 years
Search share
24.1%
Sources
Where does mentalfloss.com's traffic come from?
- Direct47.2%
- Search24.1%
- Email12.9%
- Referrals11.2%
- Social3.6%
- Paid search0.4%
- Display ads0.3%
- Generative AI0.3%
- Other0.0%
Regions
Which countries visit mentalfloss.com?
- United States79.6%
- Canada3.4%
- United Kingdom1.7%
- India1.4%
- Australia0.8%
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Search visibility
What keywords send traffic to mentalfloss.com?
Keyword samples
Estimated visitsMonthly searchesVisits ÷ searches
- lizzie borden86.3K2.84M3%
- monster lizzie borden12.66K253.06K5%
- charles manson10.1K269.25K4%
- robin williams6.2K530.92K1%
- mental flossBRAND5.05K5.83K87%
Keyword rankings
Keyword rankings
86.4M
Search estimate
New 1 · Up 2
- Ranking keywords
- 12,400
- Landing pages
- 4
- Search competitors
- 4
- AI citations
- 2
PositionEstimated visits
- google#142M
- gmail#118.2M
- google maps#19.4M
- google drive#14.1M
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What does mentalfloss.com show publicly?
- HTTP 200
- Email authentication
- Hosting ASN
- HTTP
- 200
- Page size
- 1.3 MiB
- Hosting
- AMAZON-02 · AS16509
- Email authentication
- SPF · DMARC none
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · 40 days
Page and SEOSchema 9
- Final URL
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/
- Title
- Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
- Description
- Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
- Cross-origin redirect
- Yes
- Word count
- 1,552
- Internal / external links
- 88 / 11
- Canonical
- https://www.mentalfloss.com/
- Language
- en-US
- H1 / H2
- 1 / 11
- Images missing alt
- 61 / 71
- Schema
- BreadcrumbList · ImageObject · ListItem · NewsArticle · Organization · Person · 3 more
- OG / Twitter
- OG · Twitter
- Feed / Manifest / AMP
- Feed
Technology and tracking1 tracking
- Technology clues
- Consent manager
- Tracking clues
- Google Tag Manager
- External script hosts
- cdn-ukwest.onetrust.com · cdn.cookielaw.org · assets.minutemediacdn.com
- Social links
- facebook.com · twitter.com · instagram.com · tiktok.com · youtube.com
- Server
- CloudFront
- Security headers
- 1 / 6
- Cookie
- 5（Secure 0）
Email and DNS securitySet
- SPF
- Set
- DMARC
- Set · none
- DKIM selectors
- Not found
- Mail stack
- Google Workspace
- IPv6
- No AAAA
- Site verification TXT
- Facebook · Google · Microsoft
- SOA
- ns-1355.awsdns-41.org
- NS
- ns-127.awsdns-15.com. · ns-1355.awsdns-41.org. · ns-1783.awsdns-30.co.uk. · 1 more
- MX
- 1 aspmx.l.google.com. · 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com. · 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com. · 2 more
Hosting and networkAS16509
- A
- 35.83.190.225 · 44.241.188.24
- Hosting ASN
- AS16509 · 35.80.0.0/12
- Hosting organization
- AMAZON-02 - Amazon.com, Inc.
- Hosting country
- US
- BGP announcement
- Yes
- Reverse DNS
- ec2-35-83-190-225.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com
- TLS
- TLSv1.3 · Verified
- Certificate issuer
- YE1
- Certificate remaining
- 40 days
- Certificate SAN
- DNS:mentalfloss.com
robots and AI crawlingHTTP 200
- Robots.txt
- 200
- Global Disallow /
- No
- Sitemap
- URL set · 1,675
- AI explicitly disallowed
- 0
- AI explicitly allowed
- 16
Well-known public paths3 hits
- Present / checked
- 3 / 5
- /llms.txt
- Present · 12.0 KiB
- /app-ads.txt
- Present · 19.4 KiB
- /ads.txt
- Present · 23.2 KiB
- llms summary
- > Founded in a Duke University dorm room in 2001, Mental Floss exists to answer life’s big questions, uncover fascinating facts, and surface stories so compelling that readers can’
Website information
When was mentalfloss.com registered?
- Domain
- mentalfloss.com
- Registration status
- Domain registered
- Registered
- 1996-04-09
- Registrar
- GoDaddy.com, LLC
- Expires
- 2027-04-10
- Domain age
- 30 years
- DNSSEC
- No
- Registry status
- client delete prohibited · client renew prohibited · client transfer prohibited · client update prohibited
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What's in this report
The report starts with a whole-site monthly visit estimate. Search visibility and public site facts follow when they exist.
- Website traffic is a modeled whole-site estimate, with a source, observation period and confidence.
- Search visibility is ranking keywords and search traffic, listed separately from whole-site visits.
- Missing or partial values stay marked in the report.