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Quality has become a fundamental requirement for success and sustainability of websites. This study discusses the evaluation of some e-Learning websites as one of the main sources of information to administrators, students and teachers in the educational systems. This article investigates the quality of e-learning websites in the Middle East in term of usability and content accessibility. Eleven websites from eleven countries were selected for this study. Evaluations process is done based on different web diagnostic tools and measures. The experimental results show several issues on usability and content accessibility of the selected e-learning websites. Many usability problems with respect of speed and number of broken links were found. Moreover, the design of the selected websites is not fit with the content accessibility standards.

The current study aimed to guarantee websites quality, we should evaluate them depending on certain criteria, this is to achieve the best service. This work aimed to build a platform to evaluate the navigability validation for some e-government websites. As a contribution to the field of websites evaluation, this study evaluates the quality of e-government portal website for 15 countries in the Middle East by using common automatic website evaluation tools. The proposed websites evaluation approach is conducted according to certain metrics based on five automatic website tools which are: Link checker, Xenu, page rank, Alexa, and TAW, those tools are freely available for evaluation purposes.  The assessment of these websites helps their developers for improving them and following the quality principles. We tested accessibility, usability and page rank as three criteria of websites quality assessment. Our findings may improve some standards when building and developing Middle East E-government websites, finally, they presented some recommendations to avoid the weak points in these websites.