Quality Assessment of the Websites of Selected Sports Federations

The present research aims to study the quality of the websites of the selected sports federations in terms of attractiveness and usability from the viewpoint of students and graduates of physical education and sports sciences. The study was carried out using questionnaire completed by 521 subjects via the Internet. The websites of football, wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, track and field, and rowing federations were selected for the analysis. The results showed that the selected federation websites are at a moderate to low level in terms of both attractiveness and usability. Moreover, the Pearson correlation coefficient revealed that there was a significant positive relationship between website quality and the color, style, printing, layout, structure, ease of use, content, learning, and readability (P<0.05). It seems that the apparent quality of the websites is among the most important factors involved in user satisfaction and has a halo effect on the other factors.