Evaluation of Iranian sports federations’ websites by using Websites Quality Evaluation Tool (WQET)

The purpose of this study was to evaluate Iranian sports federations websites based on (W.Q.E.T) Quality assessment tool. The method of this study is a descriptive and research group consisted of all Iranian sports federations' websites. The evaluation tool is W.Q.E.T. The tool examines the validity of the websites on the nine general criteria including content, performance, validity, up-to-date, connection, graphics, scope, structure and meta tags. Findings: The results showed that in the studied sites, not enough attention to components and features in (W.Q.E.T) Quality assessment tool. Features like search facilities, conceptual plan, tables, innovation and creativity, pictures, external links, cited statistics and research findings, and sitemap and index were not good condition. It is recommended to administrators of Iranian Sports federation's websites to use the results of this paper to improve the quality of their websites.