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Whois & Analysis for mentalfloss.com

Dec 18, 2019 1:15 pm UTC

DOMAIN OWNER WHOIS

The owner has chosen to keep his whois contact information private.
• Contact Name
Registration Private
• Organization
Domains By Proxy, LLC
• Address
DomainsByProxy.com, 14455 N. Hayden Road
• City
Scottsdale
• Zip Code
85260
• State
Arizona
• Country Code
US
• Phone Number
• Domain Registrar
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OVERVIEW

• Domain Owner
Private
• Category
Non-Standard Content  >  Streaming Media
• Online since
• Age
28 years, 10 days
• Alexa Rank
#3.128, mentalfloss.com is in the world's top 5.000 websites!

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TECHNICAL SEO & SECURITY

SSL Certificate
This website is not SSL secured (HTTPS), the certificate issued by GoDaddy.com, Inc. has expired on February 3, 2020.
Title Tag
Mental Floss
Length: 12 (recommended: 10 to 70)
Meta Description
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
Length: 115 (recommended: 50 to 160)
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Mental Floss

https://mentalfloss.com

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

Mobile Version

https://mentalfloss.com

Mental Floss

Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.

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URL Resolve

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URL Parameters
Great, the domain URLs look clean.
Attribute Value
viewport width=device-width, initial-scale=1

SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

The owner has associated the following topics to the website.

The results of our semantic analysis are shown below using the website's language.

They are the main concepts covered by mentalfloss.com.

Each concept has a confidence score. The higher it is, the more important the topic is relative to the page.

Topics
Brain teaser Confidence: 87% Arrow up

A brain teaser is a form of puzzle that requires thought to solve.

It often requires thinking in unconventional ways with given constraints in mind; sometimes it also involves lateral thinking.

Logic puzzles and riddles are specific types of brain teasers.

Mental Floss Confidence: 85% Arrow up

Mental Floss (stylized mental_floss) is an American digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials.

It is owned by Dennis Publishing and based in New York City.

mentalfloss.com, which presents facts, puzzles, and trivia with a humorous tone, draws 20.5 million unique users a month.

Its YouTube channel produces three weekly series and has 1.3 million subscribers.

The magazine mental_floss has a circulation of 160,000 and publishes six issues a year.

In October 2015, Mental Floss teamed with the National Geographic Channel for its first televised special, Brain Surgery Live with mental_floss, the first brain surgery ever broadcast live.

Game Confidence: 69% Arrow up

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for , and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.

However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).

Trivia Confidence: 67% Arrow
Knowledge Confidence: 66% Arrow

WEBSITE SPEED

mentalfloss.com website speed is fast. Page speed is important for visitors and search engines.

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Page Loading Time

3s

This domain loads at the median speed of 3 seconds.

Speed Percentile

23%

mentalfloss.com is faster than approximately 23 percent of the web. Your website page speed needs to be as fast as you can make it, without compromising the customer experience.

A good goal to achieve is a loading time of 2 seconds on desktop and mobile devices.

PAGESPEED INSIGHTS

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TRAFFIC

This website is ranked #3.128 by Alexa.

This rank is traffic based. The lower the rank is, the better the domain is ranked.

Daily visitors by country

  • mentalfloss.com daily visitors distribution - Total: 19 countries
  • Flag for IndiaIndia (7.7%)
  • Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America (55.4%)
  • Flag for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (4.2%)
  • Flag for CanadaCanada (3.9%)
  • Flag for JapanJapan (13.2%)
  • Flaf icon for other countryOthers (16.5%)

Traffic country ranks

Country Rank
Flag for IndiaIndia #3.143
Flag for IsraelIsrael #2.394
Flag for PhilippinesPhilippines #1.305
Flag for PakistanPakistan #3.402
Flag for United States of AmericaUnited States of America #985

LAYOUT

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Mobile Rendering

This website seems to be optimized for Mobile Visitors.

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How mentalfloss.com looks like on a mobile device such as an iPhone.

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How mentalfloss.com looks like on a tablet such as an iPad.

Main colors used

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  • 22% #201010
  • 14% #f0f0f0
  • 14% #ffffff
  • 9% #403020
  • 8% #504030
  • 7% #605040
  • 3% #706050
  • 3% #005040
  • 2% #004030
  • 2% #f07050
  • 1% #e00030
  • 1% #f0e0e0

Text/code ratio

mentalfloss.com's text/code ratio is 1.67%. It's a bit low. Consider raising it by adding more text content of value for your visitors, or keeping your code clean.
Text / Code Ratio 1.67%

A good text to HTML ratio is anywhere from 25 to 70%.

This percentage refers to the visible text ratio, as opposed to HTML elements, image tags and other non-visible information.

Main HTML tags

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Great, we found headings on this page.

  • <H1> 0
  • <H2> 9
  • <H3> 3
  • <H4> 37
  • <H5> 0
  • <H6> 0

However, you have not defined a top level heading, or <H1>. It is used to define the most important heading.

We recommend using one top level heading to set up a semantic relationship between that heading and the remainder of the content on a page. It clearly describes to the readers and the search engines what it is about.

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2nd level heading
Collectıons (2)
Sectıons
Topıcs (2)
Bıographıes
Daıly floss (2)
<H3>
3rd level heading
The latest
Sectıons
Trendıng
<H4>

For a better readability, only the first 20 <H4> tags are shown below.

4th level heading
10 facts about mariah carey's 'all ı want for christmas ıs you'
10 online holiday shopping hacks that will save you big
Wrap yourself in the sweet smell of bacon (or coffee or pine) with these scented t-shirts
8 of the best dogs of the decade
Was ıt a historical cure for a hangover?
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We found 52 images on this website.
24 ALT attributes are missing on your image tags.

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Alternative text allows you to add a description to an image.

Google rely on alternative text attributes to determine relevance to a search query. Alternative text also makes an image more likely to appear in a Google image search.

It looks like you're missing alternative text for 24 images on mentalfloss.com. Check your website to make sure it's specified for each image on the page.

SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE

This is an overview of your homepage shares on social networks.

You're doing quiet good on social media!

Social shares are a key signal, among many others, that search engines use to evaluate the rankings of a website. Asking people to share your pages, adding visible social share buttons and make great quality content are 3 of the most powerful ways to grow your social presence.

  • Facebook iconFacebook
  • Total Engagement 438
  • Likes 50
  • Shares 322
  • Comments 66

DOMAIN REGISTRAR

Domain Registrar GODADDY.COM, LLC
Registration Date 04/09/1996 28 years, 10 days ago
Last Modified 10/03/2018 5 years, 6 months, 18 days ago
Expiration Date 04/10/2025 11 months, 25 days from now
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Host IP Address Country
ns1.p05.dynect.net 208.78.70.5 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns2.p05.dynect.net 204.13.250.5 Flag for United StatesUnited States
ns3.p05.dynect.net 208.78.71.5 Flag for United StatesUnited States

SERVER DETAILS

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  • Service Provider (ISP)
  • Amazon.com, Inc.
  • IP Address
  • 34.210.90.165
  • Country
  • Flag for United StatesUnited States
  • Region
  • Oregon , Portland
  • Latitude and Longitude
  • 45.5235 : -122.676
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