Overview
JavaScript is Burundi's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 18.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 20.9% |
| JavaScript | 37.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.9% |
| TLS | 16.8% |
WAF covers 93.2% of Burundi's 755 surveyed domains. JavaScript rendering (37.7%) leads the five secondary barriers. Rate Limiting (10.9%) and TLS (16.8%) are both below their secondary-barrier peers.
Barrier Landscape
All five secondary barriers run below their typical levels in Burundi
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 18.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 20.9% |
| JavaScript | 37.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.9% |
| TLS | 16.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.4% |
Secondary barriers: JavaScript 37.7%, CAPTCHA 20.9%, Antibot 18.4%, TLS 16.8%, Rate Limiting 10.9%. WAF alone (93.2%) meets the 93.1% level.
No Burundi site deploys all six barriers simultaneously
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.1% |
| 1 barrier | 34.3% |
| 2 barriers | 35.2% |
| 3 barriers | 15.8% |
| 4 barriers | 7% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
4.1% of Burundi domains carry no barriers at all. Two barriers is the modal configuration at 35.2%. Notably, no single domain deploys all six barrier types — a zero count at the maximum end of the stacking distribution.
Over half of Burundi's sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
A browser-mode median tier of 1 confirms over half of Burundi's domains are reachable with basic HTTP requests. The mean of 1.54 is among the lower figures in this dataset, indicating relatively few high-friction outliers pulling the average upward.
Most Burundi sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 33.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 6.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 accounts for 57.5% of Burundi domains and Tier 2 for a further 33.8%, for a combined 91.3% at the two simplest tiers. Tier 3 covers 6.4%. The two most demanding tiers (4 and 5) together reach just 2.4% of domains.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Burundi's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
15.6% of Burundi's 755 domains name at least one AI crawler in a robots.txt rule. SEO audit tools (13.4%) rank second — ahead of SEO/search indexing bots (11.9%), an inversion of the more common ordering. Monitoring bots appear on just 0.4% of domains.
Uniform rules are Burundi's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.6% |
18.3% of Burundi domains publish no robots.txt. Of those that do, uniform per-agent rules cover 40.9% of all domains — the single largest posture type. Path-level mixed rules account for 34.4%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.6% of all domains.
ClaudeBot is Burundi's second-most blocked agent after GPTBot
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.5% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 7.9% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.5% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7.9% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.5% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.9% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.5% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.3% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 0.8% |
GPTBot leads with an 11.5% Disallow rate. Unusually, ClaudeBot ranks second at 9.5% — ahead of Google-Extended (8.2%) and CCBot (7.9%). On the Allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 2.8%.
Multiple Burundi sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Printing, and Retail all reach 100%: every sampled domain in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors, including Healthcare and Newspapers, follow at 90%.
Burundi's Airlines sites sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 80% |
| Oil & Gas | 71.4% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Ecology & Environment | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Social & Charitable | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
Airlines tops the explicit bot Allow chart at 90% — 9 in 10 sampled airline domains name at least one bot in an Allow rule. Aerospace & Defence follows at 80%, an unusual sector to appear in the top two positions on a bot allowlist.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is the only Burundi sector at a Moderate median tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 57.1% | 0% | 0% | 28.6% | 28.6% | 57.1% | 57.1% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 80% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 100% | 100% | 50% | 50% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality is the only sector among Burundi's hardest 15 with a median Zyte tier of 3. The Reference sector (n=6) records 100% Antibot adoption — the highest of any sector across the barrier breakdown — alongside 50% CAPTCHA.
Accounting & Auditing sites are Burundi's most accessible
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Accounting & Auditing | 100% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Accounting & Auditing records a mean Zyte tier of 1.60 — the lowest in this group and the most accessible sector in Burundi's dataset. Despite 100% WAF and 40% Antibot coverage, its absence of CAPTCHA and Rate Limiting keeps retrieval difficulty low.