Compared to near unusable pages that large organizations produce, yes this page is highly effective at conveying information. Who cares how it was produced?
Well, we're at least two people who care, since we were conversing about how good/bad the webdesign is, then you jumped in here :) If you don't care, why bother to reply to people who seemingly do care? What kind of conversation are you expecting here, "Yeah, do tooo"? :|
In this case, it appears more effort was put into content than presentation, which is a possibility and the creator is in the comments saying as such, but humans operate on heuristics by default. The majority of sites that look like this have been a complete waste of my time and I usually just click away at this point.
Is it though? If the page is near unreadable?
* Almost pure-black background rendering every not-pure-white colour barely readable
* Dark-grey and low saturation colours used almost everywhere, for both fonts and other coloured elements (the orange cells in the calendar are the most readable thing)
* Thin fonts - coupled with the dark grey colours this just adds to the readability issues
* Yet another incredibly long info-dump of a page
And then as far as actual information:
* Vanity metrics as the main information, that is a lot of things with no context or historical information
* A lot of aggregates and rollups that aren't that useful
No, I haven't tried Reader Mode.
It's a good demo for UI state syncing though, I'll give it that.