Copied from my comment when this was posted to r/Singapore subreddit - The source indicates the site is generated using CKAN (http://ckan.org/ http://ckan.org/

Copied from my comment when this was posted to r/Singapore subreddit - The source indicates the site is generated using CKAN (http://ckan.org/ http://ckan.org/). Never heard of it myself, but it is F/OSS, and widely used in other countries. Great to see the government adopt open source software - The homepage loads 2MB+ without a primed cache, and 600KB+ with, which is really high. The site pulls down a lot of JS - jQuery with a gazillion plugins, Bootstrap, DataTables, Select2, d3.js, and Moment.js. - The icons are in SVG, which is good, but some of them are really badly optimized - this icon (http://beta.data.gov.sg/uploads/group/2015-06-12-061106.977358icon-environment.svg http://beta.data.gov.sg/uploads/group/2015-06-12-061106.9773...) for the environment category is 128KB (!) which is an absolutely monster for a SVG. The equivalent PNG file will be much smaller. - The site is not accessible at all over HTTPS - it doesn't even redirect, but just keeps the client waiting until the client times out. It's 2015 - I'd expect government sites to be accessible over HTTPS. - The favicon is not the icon, for some reason. I really like the design of the icon, although I'm not entirely sure if it is the best fit for the data site. I can see it being used for as a single brand for all government websites though - Fonts on almost everything need to be made bigger. The graph labels are so small I need to squint. - The new API looks very very neat. Much more usable than the old one. The documentation can be better, and perhaps should be more front and center, but I guess they need to balance the needs of developers with casual visitors and non-developers. Love the graphs automatically drawn by d3.js for appropriate datasets - Data is licensed under CC-by, which is quite nice. A few interesting data sets: - Amount of mobile data used quarterly: http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/mobile-data-usage http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/mobile-data-usage - Singapore has one of the highest mobile device ownership rates in the world - on average, each resident own more than one mobile phone - Singapore's total land area since independence: http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/total-land-area-of-singapore http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/total-land-area-of-singapore - Singapore has been constantly reclaiming land since independence - Number of licensed supermarkets: http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/licensed-food-establishments-supermarkets http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/licensed-food-establishments... - Daily public transport ridership: http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/public-transport-utilisation-average-public-transport-ridership http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/public-transport-utilisation...