Mental Floss Technology Stack

Alexa is a competitor intelligence and website analytics software that provides actionable SEO insights based on a sample of data from the web. Alexa enables users to view audience demographics, engagement, traffic trends, keyword research, traffic sources, and website comparisons.

Google Analytics allows users to measure sales & conversions, plus gain fresh insights into how visitors use sites, & how they arrived on site.

Pro Profs Poll Maker Software is a powerful online poll creator which helps online marketers, instructors, businesses & government organizations to quickly create an online poll and set it up on their website or blog. The Poll software comes with advanced customization features, using which clients can create customer polls that match the colors and theme.

Quid software reads millions of text based documents and offers immediate insight by organizing that content visually.

AddThis provides social engagement tools, APIs and services personalizing websites for engagement, monetization and traffic boosting

ComScore is a web analytics and digital marketing software that assesses your website and online platforms performances based on visitor trends and search engine results. ComScore lets user identify users digital audiences in depth and enables user to drill down on vital traffic data and in turn segment users audiences for retargetting content campaigns

Dissolve offers stock footage and photographs.

Facebook is a social networking site that makes it easy for people to connect and share with family and friends online.

Getty Images provides stock photos and imagery collections for advertising and graphic design as well as print and online publishing.

Google AdWords lets create ads that appear in Google search results for certain keywords in certain regions, driving more qualified traffic to their website.

DoubleClick is a digital advertising solution from Google.

Imgur is an online image sharing and image hosting service,

Airbnb is an online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book accommodations through the internet.

Educate your users with a super simple knowledge base that’s built for teams just like yours.

ProProfs Survey offers powerfully simple features to online marketers, trainers, educational institutions & corporations to create different kinds of surveys such as course evaluation surveys, market research surveys, product feedback surveys, learner feedback surveys.

QuestionPro is an online solution for survey designers that helps in the creation, distribution and recording of surveys to generate valuable business insights.

Shopify is a commerce platform that allows anyone to easily sell online, at a retail location, and everywhere.

Tripadvisor is an online travel agency that assists customers in gathering travel information with user-generated content like posting reviews, opinions of travel-related content and engaging in interactive travel forums. It also offers online hotel reservations and bookings for transportation, lodging, travel experiences, and restaurants

Cloud based storage systems by AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

Sonian is a hosted information archive program created with cloud computing infrastructure technologies.

GIS software for creating maps, conducting spatial analysis and sharing intelligent visualizations.

ArcGIS Online is a complete mapping and analysis solution that enables users to connect people, locations, and data using interactive maps.

ASP.net is an open source framework for building web applications and services with .NET and C#.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

JavaScript is the programming language of HTML and the Web.

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. Web analysis indicates that it is the most widely deployed JavaScript library by a large margin.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side scripting language designed for Web development, but also used as a general-purpose programming language. PHP code may be embedded into HTML code, or it can be used in combination with various web template systems, web content management systems, and web frameworks.

Typekit is an online service which offers a subscription library of high-quality fonts. The fonts may be used directly on websites or synced via Adobe Creative Cloud to applications on the subscriber's computers.

Bugsnag is command center for software stability - empowering software teams to make data-driven decisions on when to focus on building new features, or when to fix bugs.

Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a geographically distributed group of servers that ensure fast delivery of Internet content, including HTML pages, JavaScript files, stylesheets, and images.

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Medium is a blog-publishing platform.

NSONE is a high performance DNS service providing unparalleled control over where end users are routed. NSONE combines real-time metrics feeds with powerful and easy to use Filter Chain technology to offer highly customized turn-key traffic routing setups.

PodBean offers solutions for podcast publishing, promoting and advertising.

Tumblr, a microblogging platform, enables companies and users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog.

Vimeo PRO is a business video hosting platform.

Cloudflare mitigates threats from website scraping to application level attacks e.g. SQL Injection and DDOS Protection without any additional hardware.

reCAPTCHA is a CAPTCHA-like system designed by Google to establish that a computer user is human.

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. Its built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.

Eventbrite is an event management solution which helps businesses to plan, manage, & grow events through tools such as ticketing, attendee tracking, & marketing.

G Suite is a suite of apps from Google which offers a number of tools to communicate and collaborate with colleagues, store files, and manage data.

ProProfs Knowledge Base is an companies can manage knowledge for internal employees by creating corporate wikis using the software. This boosts knowledge sharing and increases collaboration.

ProProfs Training Maker is an integrated online software that helps in creation of training course, FAQs, educational programs shared using knowledge management platform.

Project management & team collaboration tool with trainable artificial intelligence.

Scribd is a digital library where people can publish, discover, and read books and documents of all kinds on the web or any mobile device.

eVoice is a virtual phone system and PBX tool for small and medium sized businesses. The software provides a phone system hosted over the internet for companies to manage all incoming calls. eVoice provides users with new phone numbers, or it takes their existing phone numbers, and adds the ability to use a range of features such as auto receptionist.

Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service offered as part of Google's G Suite, with 15GB of storage, color-coded inbox filters and unsend button.

Slack is a single workspace that connects users with the people and tools they work with everyday, no matter where they are or what they do.

Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share web pages.

Squarespace is a SaaS-based Content Management System (CMS) offering a website builder, blogging platform and hosting service.

Hurricane Electric is an Internet service provider offering IPv4 and IPv6 services.

Indiegogo is a crowdfunding engine that helps individuals, groups and non-profits raise money online to make their ideas a reality.

Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.

Mirror is a financial contracts platform that provides hedging instruments to OTC markets.

Shopify Pay is a frictionless payment method to purchase goods online.

Simple is an online banking tool with built-in budgeting and saving modules.

Venmo is an online service owned by PayPal that allows you to quickly pay and request money from your friends.

Intel's innovation in cloud computing, data center, Internet of Things, and PC solutions is powering the smart and connected digital world we live in.

Riddle provides tools to create quizzes, polls and lists to understand and grow the audience.

Storenvy, a community of online stores, provides an e-commerce network enabling users to shop across multiple stores.