Copied from my comment when this was posted to r/Singapore subreddit<p>- The source indicates the site is generated using CKAN (<a href="http://ckan.org/" rel="nofollow">http://ckan.org/</a>). 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<p>- 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.<p>- The icons are in SVG, which is good, but some of them are really badly optimized - this icon (<a href="http://beta.data.gov.sg/uploads/group/2015-06-12-061106.977358icon-environment.svg" rel="nofollow">http://beta.data.gov.sg/uploads/group/2015-06-12-061106.9773...</a>) for the environment category is 128KB (!) which is an absolutely monster for a SVG. The equivalent PNG file will be much smaller.<p>- 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.<p>- 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<p>- Fonts on almost everything need to be made bigger. The graph labels are so small I need to squint.<p>- 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<p>- Data is licensed under CC-by, which is quite nice.<p>A few interesting data sets:<p>- Amount of mobile data used quarterly: <a href="http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/mobile-data-usage" rel="nofollow">http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/mobile-data-usage</a> - Singapore has one of the highest mobile device ownership rates in the world - on average, each resident own more than one mobile phone<p>- Singapore's total land area since independence: <a href="http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/total-land-area-of-singapore" rel="nofollow">http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/total-land-area-of-singapore</a> - Singapore has been constantly reclaiming land since independence<p>- Number of licensed supermarkets: <a href="http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/licensed-food-establishments-supermarkets" rel="nofollow">http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/licensed-food-establishments...</a><p>- Daily public transport ridership: <a href="http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/public-transport-utilisation-average-public-transport-ridership" rel="nofollow">http://beta.data.gov.sg/dataset/public-transport-utilisation...</a>