Overview
JavaScript and CAPTCHA lead Burkina Faso's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.8% |
| Antibot | 19.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.7% |
WAF covers 93.8% of Burkina Faso's 932 domains. JavaScript rendering (40.8%) and CAPTCHA (24.4%) are the two most common secondary barriers. Rate Limiting, at 11.6%, is the least-used of the five secondary methods.
Barrier Landscape
Rate Limiting is Burkina Faso's lightest secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.8% |
| Antibot | 19.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 78.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.2% |
WAF is deployed across 93.8% of domains. TLS (17.7%) and Antibot (19.4%) are nearly level. Rate Limiting at 11.6% sits well below the four other secondary barriers, making it the lightest-touch mechanism in Burkina Faso's web infrastructure.
Nearly three in ten Burkina Faso sites carry three or more barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.4% |
| 1 barrier | 31.3% |
| 2 barriers | 35.5% |
| 3 barriers | 17.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
3.4% of Burkina Faso domains carry no barriers. The single most common configuration is two barriers (35.5%). Sites deploying three or more barriers account for 29.7% of the total — nearly three in ten surveyed domains.
Most Burkina Faso sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
With a browser-mode median tier of 1, more than half of Burkina Faso's 932 domains return data with basic HTTP retrieval. The mean of 1.58 indicates a long tail of harder sites pulling the average above the median.
Nine in ten Burkina Faso sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 34.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 alone accounts for 55.2% of domains; Tier 2 adds 34.3%. Together they cover 89.5%. Tier 3 (Moderate) applies to 8.0%. Tiers 4 and 5 — the most demanding retrieval levels — affect just 2.4% of domains combined.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead Burkina Faso's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
16.7% of all 932 Burkina Faso domains mention at least one AI crawler in a robots.txt rule, placing AI crawlers clearly ahead of SEO/search indexing bots (12.9%) and SEO audit tools (12.3%). Monitoring bots appear on just 0.4% of domains.
Uniform rules are Burkina Faso's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 38% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3% |
21.5% of Burkina Faso's domains have no robots.txt file. Of those that do, uniform per-agent rules dominate at 38.0% of all domains, with path-level mixed rules close behind at 34.4%. Blanket Disallow: / applies on 3.0% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Burkina Faso's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.3% | 2.6% |
| CCBot | 7.6% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.8% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 7.6% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 6% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 3.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 3.9% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.1% | 2.4% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.9% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.3% of all domains — the highest Disallow rate of any agent. On the Allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 3.4%, followed by OAI-SearchBot and PerplexityBot at 2.4% each.
Multiple Burkina Faso sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Printing | 90% |
Civil Engineering, Design, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail all reach 100% — every sampled domain in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors, including Entertainment and Food & Beverages, sit at 90%.
Four Burkina Faso sectors share the top bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Comics & Animation | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Wholesalers | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Mental Health | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
Airlines, Comics & Animation, Travel & Tourism, and Wholesalers all show 80% of their domains naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — a four-way tie at the top of Burkina Faso's allowlist chart.
Industry Patterns
Human Resources is Burkina Faso's only Moderate-tier sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 0% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 90% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 90% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Human Resources is the sole sector in Burkina Faso's hardest-15 with a median Zyte tier of 3. It also carries the highest Antibot rate of any sector at 70% and a 50% CAPTCHA rate. Automotive follows with the highest mean tier at 2.60.
Advertising, Airlines, and Banking share Burkina Faso's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 90% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing, Airlines, and Banking all record a mean Zyte tier of 1.70 — the floor of this group and Burkina Faso's most accessible sectors by retrieval difficulty. The remaining sectors in this group cluster between 1.80 and 1.90.