Overview
JavaScript and CAPTCHA form Benin's secondary barrier core
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 12% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
WAF covers 93.6% of Benin's 1,044 surveyed domains. JavaScript rendering leads the secondary barriers at 40.6%, with CAPTCHA at 21.4% and Antibot at 19.0%. TLS (16.4%) and Rate Limiting (12.0%) trail the group.
Barrier Landscape
TLS is Benin's least-deployed secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 12% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.2% |
WAF dominates at 93.6%. TLS, at 16.4%, is the least-adopted secondary barrier — below both Antibot (19.0%) and Rate Limiting (12.0%) being the only one below its own already-low position. JavaScript (40.6%) leads the secondary stack by a wide margin.
One-barrier and two-barrier sites are virtually tied in Benin
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.7% |
| 1 barrier | 33.1% |
| 2 barriers | 33.3% |
| 3 barriers | 16.9% |
| 4 barriers | 7.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
4.7% of Benin domains carry no barriers. The one-barrier (33.1%) and two-barrier (33.3%) configurations are nearly identical in frequency — an unusually flat distribution at the modal end. Sites with three or more barriers account for 28.9%.
Most Benin sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
More than half of Benin's 1,044 domains return data at Tier 1 — the simplest retrieval level. A mean of 1.61 reflects a minority of more demanding sites. Tier 5 (Advanced) accounts for just 0.6% of domains.
Nine in ten Benin sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 36.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 (52.6%) and Tier 2 (36.5%) together account for 89.1% of Benin's domains. Tier 3 covers a further 8.5%. Tiers 4 and 5 combined affect only 2.4% of domains — the most demanding retrieval scenarios are a small minority.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Benin's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.2% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt rules on 16.6% of Benin's 1,044 domains. SEO/search indexing bots (14.2%) and SEO audit tools (13.7%) follow with a notably narrow gap between the top three categories. Monitoring bots appear on just 0.4% of domains.
One in five Benin domains publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
19.7% of Benin's domains publish no robots.txt. Of those that do, uniform per-agent rules are most common at 39.7% of all domains, with path-level mixed rules close behind at 35.2%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.6% of all sites.
CCBot is the second-most blocked agent in Benin after GPTBot
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.2% | 2.7% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 1.5% |
| Google-Extended | 7.9% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7.2% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 3.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.7% | 2.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 1.1% |
GPTBot leads Disallow rules at 11.2% of all Benin domains. CCBot follows at 9.1% — an unusually high second position ahead of ClaudeBot (8.2%) and Google-Extended (7.9%). On the Allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 3.3%.
Multiple Benin sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Newspapers, and Publishing each reach 100% — every sampled domain names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. A further 11 sectors, including Automotive, Apparel, and Food & Beverages, sit at 90%.
Market Research and Real Estate lead Benin's explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 80% |
| Real Estate | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Museums | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 60% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
Market Research and Real Estate top Benin's explicit bot Allow chart at 80% each — sectors with notable data-access demand. Airlines, Automotive, and Museums follow at 70%. Publishing appears in both the top Disallow and top Allow charts simultaneously.
Industry Patterns
Retail is the only Benin sector at a Moderate median tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 80% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Retail is the sole sector in Benin's hardest-15 with a median Zyte tier of 3, recording a mean of 2.60. With 100% WAF and 70% JavaScript rendering on sampled sites, it also tops the 100% bot-block list. Apparel & Fashion matches the 2.60 mean at a lower median.
Advertising sites share Benin's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 50% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Eight sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.90, including Libraries — an unusual entry for this list. The floor is a mean tier of 1.80, shared by Advertising & Marketing, Food & Beverages, Machinery, Recruitment & Staffing, and Restaurants.