Assessment of web sites

Sport web sites

Ricardo Castillo

Pages that will be reviewed

www.fifa.com

www.nba.com

www.nhl.com

www.nfl.com

www.atpworldtour.com

www.espn.go.com

1. www.Fifa.com : the official site of the Fédération Internationale de Football

Association (FIFA) has updated information about scores, news, photos, videos and

interviews all about the most important sport in the planet.

1. Ip address: 92.122.213.153

2. IP country code: EU

3. IP address country: Europe

4. Monthly users: 2,317,412 ( 76,189 per day)

5. Monthly earnings: $ 19,496.48 ( $ 640.98 per day)

This web site, was created on purpose to provide, inform and keep updated all

the people who love this sport, with trustful information which is interesting (news,

pictures, videos, interviews, live scores, articles about exciting things of the sport) also

the style of writing is unique with topic sentences and titles which captivate the users

to read and get inform with the most updated and electrifying. The multimedia it

provides and the visual satisfaction it gives is great. Also live scores, interviews, and

statistics of friendly matches, leagues and cups and tournaments of all the categories of

the soccer.

In my opinion the web site is complete, full of information which contains a wide

range of various teams, leagues and tournaments of football. You will find it very

interesting and it is ideal for all ages. So I recommend it for all people for all ages who

like that sport. The navigation or the exploring though this web site is easy because it

contains visual help such as images, photos and graphics, also it contains side bar

menus as well as links and subpages so at all, it is very organized.

2. www.NBA.com : this is the most completed and official web site of the National

Basketball Association (the basketball league of the U.S and some Canadian teams).

It contains various matters that will be mentioned below. And also the latest

information that is daily updated to keep the users up-to-date in all the matches,

teams, and other interesting things about this awesome league.

1. IP address:157.166.255.11

2. IP country code: US

3. IP address country: United States

4. Monthly Users: 26,430,038 (868,933 per day).

5. Monthly Earnings: $ 280,042.30 ($ 9,206.87 per day).

This web site, created on the Nov 28, 1994 haves the main objective is to fulfill

the expectations of a fan of this sport the basketball. These expectations include

keeping updated the users with all the latest and more interesting information about

all the matches, tournaments, teams and players with all the latest photos, videos,

interviews. Features such as buying tickets online, games, cool stuff and live scores are

available in the web site. On the homepage, the first things you can see are the lives

scores or the results of the past matches, and also the photos taken at matches or

“behind the scenes” accompanied with some great articles that talk about things

related with the National Basketball Association.

In my opinion the web site is very well organized, very illustrative this makes it an

attractive place to visit frequently as well as a place where you can keep updated all

time. And feel every bounce, basket, dunk and fault of every game of the team you are

fan from.

3. www.NHL.com : the web site for the National Hockey League, better known as NHL,

which is the league for all the North American Hockey teams. The web site contains

a great variety of information from the sport, which makes you feel living this great

sport full of ice, emotion, and speed. For my criterion, one the best website to really

“live” the Hockey.

1. IP address: 8.20.73.105

2. IP country code: US

3. IP address country: United States

4. Monthly Users: 10,153,739 (333,822 per day)

5. Monthly Earning: $ 144,509.58 ($ 4,751.00 per day)

After visiting and exploring in detail this web site, I had a clear statement about it

“very complete but a bit disorganized”. The web sites has a front page with the news ,

reviews, images, and scores so it is complete and well complemented with links, adds,

polls etc. The only thing that is neither organized nor neat, is the only negative feature

of this front page is the Top Headlines section there are all the headlines of the news

placed all together one after the other so it makes it difficult to distinguish one from

another and also it is not visually satisfactory.

Here is an example of that section:

But despite of this, all the subpages are well designed each of it containing

attractive material complemented with graphics and pictures. Also there is one

subpage for each team of this league. Buying tickets for matches and seeing players’

biographies are also obtainable in other subpages of this website.

4. www.NFL.com : because of the lack of advertisement and publicity adds on the

FrontPage, the official site for the National Football League (abbreviated NFL) is very

pleasing to see and visit frequently so you focus on what you are really looking for:

the action of the American league Football and all its excitement of the sport full of

speed accuracy and rudeness.

1. IP Address: 92.122.212.8

2. IP country code: EU

3. IP address country: Europe

4. Monthly Users: 4,700,122 (154,525 per day)

5. Monthly Earnings: $ 60,655.09 ($ 1,994.14 per day)

While I was visiting this web site (although I am not “fan” of this sport) I was

surprised and amazed by all the excitement and emotion that happens while you

see or play it. I learnt all of these because while I was exploring deeply this website I

found things that I liked and that I have not look for before.

Here, on the official NFL webpage, you can: buy tickets, buy the official NFL

clothes and stuff, see the scoreboards, read news, know more about your team, see

pictures and more things. All the things, and activities you can make, see, or read

about the football are only available and offered by this web site which makes it

exclusive and the best over all other football websites.

There are also links on the FrontPage (images of the logo of a team) that redirect

you to the official webpage of a team.

5. www.atpworldtour.com : the official web site for the men´s ATP WORLD TOUR

tennis. This web site with the blue background provides the latest and tremendous

information about this awesome sport the tennis.

1. IP Address: 67.207.213.65

2. IP country code: US

3. IP Address Country: United States

4. Monthly Users: 3,287,028 (108,067 per day)

5. Monthly Earnings: $ 33,181.85 ($ 1,090.91per day)

Tennis is a very exciting and attractive sport, so it needs a website that haves to

do so, that why the AtpWorldTour web site was created, to give the users a wide

information of the sport.

This includes keeping the user updated with all the latest news and the lives

scores, informing the people about coming tournaments and events, giving the

users photos, interviews and videos about the past events, all this is offered in the

FrontPage as shown below:

The website is well organized, visually pleasant, with statistics, rankings of singles

and doubles, an online shop where you can buy the apparel that the players use. It

does have few ads so it is perfect, also it haves the top headlines in the FrontPage.

6. www.ESPN.go.com : want to see more than sport on internet at a time? Want a

website with which contains ALL of your favorite sports but you cannot find it? Well

the ESPN Sports website contains all detailed information about sports such as

football, hockey, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf, baseball and more.

1. IP Address: 68.71.208.21

2. IP country code: US

3. IP address country: United States

4. Monthly Users: 61,921,494 (2,035,776 per day)

5. Monthly Earnings: $ 1,263,446.28 ($ 41,537.96 per day)

ESPN has always been the best in sports (as its slogan says ESPN: The Worldwide

Leader In Sports) and in internet it is still the leader in sports because the very well

completed website with a variety of sports from all around the world. The web page

is divided in subpages, where in the main side bar the subpages are each of the

sports that ESPN covers.

Each sport has a detailed subpage with news, statistics, pictures, scores, and other

multimedia material which makes it a great experience to look at sports in this web

site. If you register to this web site, the MyESPN option will be enabled and some

tools such as favorite and sports teams and preferred players and daily feedback

and summaries to your email if you like.

Other subpages such as Games, radio, and polls are on the web site so it is the

most-completed sports’ website (that includes various sports) on the internet

because of the numerous information of each sport.