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Mental Floss
Who runs Mental Floss, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest digital trivia magazine alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Today I Found Out
Measured from Mental Floss’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Mental Floss01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Mental Floss
Mental Floss mentalfloss.com
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Wikidata: American magazine
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Mental Floss tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
2 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 2 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Mental Floss
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Mental Floss, thumbs down if it isn’t.
17 of the 60 sites closest to Mental Floss match.
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Very close - 02
National Geographic
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Very close - 03
Playbuzz - Quizzes, Polls & Personality Tests
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Very close - 04
Laughing Squid
a daily dose of unique and curious things
Very close - 05
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 06
Scientific American
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
Very close - 07
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 08
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close - 09
designboom magazine | your first source for architecture, design & art news
est. 1999 designboom is the first and most popular digital magazine for architecture & design culture. daily news for a professional and creative audience.
Very close - 10
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close - 11
Stereogum: Music News, Reviews, Interviews, & More
The world's best music blog.
Very close - 12
A List Apart – For people who make websites
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Very close - 13
Refinery29 UK
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Very close - 14
Smashing Magazine — For Web Designers And Developers
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Very close - 15
Popular Mechanics - Product Reviews, How-To, Space, Military, Math, Science, and New Technology
Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world, whether it's practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science.
Very close - 16
ScienceDaily: Your source for the latest research news
Breaking science news and articles on global warming, extrasolar planets, stem cells, bird flu, autism, nanotechnology, dinosaurs, evolution -- the latest discoveries in astronomy, anthropology, biology, chemistry, climate & environment, computers, engineering, health & medicine, math, physics, psychology, technology, and more -- from the world's leading universities and research organizations.
Very close - 17
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Metro.co.uk: News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities from Metro
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Mental Floss’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Mental Floss uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Mental Floss adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Mental Floss’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Qwik page source: q:container=
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:aspmx.sailthru.com include:_spf.google.com include:mai…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: otSDKStub
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: MJu4RkLtlLWkJvXMsSXYQn_xPnT_BI0B6k_mbhH_5AWS_D6Teyvv2Q==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms12917153
- Email delivery
- Brevo TXT brevo-code:25bd81de5f53ea7ec3c6b9f3e71ef018
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1783.awsdns-30.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=LV6dh4kX-YtEkDCh-SiewnGyNcWjwOCaVGPrtIrL2bE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=8p8k8s86fzfb5d2g2zq15818aj4u62
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Meta Business Suite 16/20
- Amazon Route 53 11/20
- Apple Business · not on mentalfloss.com 10/20
- Microsoft 365 10/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on mentalfloss.com 9/20
- Google Analytics · not on mentalfloss.com 8/20
- GlobalSign · not on mentalfloss.com 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Mailchimp · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- DocuSign · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20
- Adobe · not on mentalfloss.com 6/20