Interest in the Edinburgh conference helped push monthly hits for almamata.net above 50,000 for the first time in November 2006. Over 1500 visitors spent time browsing the site and membership stands at over 500. Original content is exclusively contributed on a voluntary basis by members - mostly professionals and students with interest and expertise in international health. Here are some other facts that the more statistically-minded may find interesting:

42% of almamata.net users are in the UK, 12% in the EU and the remaining 46% from countries all over the developed and developing world.

Mondays are the busiest day of the week - more than twice as busy as Fridays!

90% of almamata visitors are Windows users, with 4.5% using Macs.

Internet Explorer is used by 78% of visitors, while 13% run Firefox.