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Due to the importance of websites regarding public relations, universities are providing website to offering required information. Webometric is studying the quantity aspects of producing and using of information, the structure and technologies of web environment. The present study is surveys the websites of physical education faculties of Iranian state universities by TOPSIS and VIKOR techniques and is descriptive-functional with webometric approach. The statistic population was 18 physical education faculties’ websites. Ranking done by four indexes: size, visibility, rich files and researcher. Data collected from Google, Yahoo, Exalead, Bing and Alexa and analyzed by TOPSIS and VIKOR. The results of TOPSIS showed that, Tehran, Tabriz, Isfahan, Allameh Tabataba’i and Hamadan faculties were ranking from first to fifth and the result of VIKOR showed that Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Hamadan and Beheshti faculties were ranking from first to fifth. Faculties of physical education with the knowledge of your website ranking position among the other faculties on the basis of indices can take steps to strengthen the scientific and educational activities and to improve the service quality in the educational system work

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