Overview
Antibot adoption is notably elevated among Botswana's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.9% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
WAF covers 91.9% of Botswana's 1,018 domains. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.1%, followed by CAPTCHA at 23.4% and Antibot at 21.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Botswana's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.9% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.4% |
| JavaScript | 40.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.5% |
WAF (91.9%) dominates. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.1%, ahead of CAPTCHA (23.4%), Antibot (21.9%), TLS (17.8%), and Rate Limiting (11.9%).
Three in ten Botswana sites carry three or more barriers in combination
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 30.7% |
| 2 barriers | 34.4% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 8.8% |
| 5 barriers | 3.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.6% of Botswana sites carry no barriers. Two barriers is the modal configuration at 34.4%. Notably, more than three in ten sites (30.2%) deploy three or more barriers simultaneously — one of the heavier multi-barrier profiles in this dataset.
Most Botswana sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser-mode median tier of 1 places over half of Botswana's domains at the simplest retrieval level. The mean of 1.61 reflects a distribution skewed by harder sites at Tiers 3–5. Tier 5 (Advanced) covers just 0.6% of domains.
Nine in ten Botswana sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 37% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 accounts for 52.4% of Botswana domains and Tier 2 for 37.0% — together 89.4%. Tier 3 covers 8.3%. The combined Tier 4 and 5 share of 2.4% represents the most demanding retrieval scenarios, affecting fewer than 25 domains in every thousand.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Botswana's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers lead at 16.0% of Botswana's 1,018 domains. SEO audit tools (13.1%) rank second — above SEO/search indexing bots (12.8%). Commercial scrapers appear on 8.3% of domains, the highest commercial scraper share across this five-country group. Monitoring bots reach just 0.3%.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Botswana's robots.txt postures
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.7% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3% |
18.6% of Botswana domains have no robots.txt. Of all domains, 40.3% use uniform per-agent rules and 35.2% use path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.0% of sites; Allow-only rules cover a further 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Botswana's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.6% | 2.6% |
| CCBot | 9.7% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.8% | 1.5% |
| Google-Extended | 8.8% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 7.8% | 0.8% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.5% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.3% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.3% | 0.9% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.8% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.9% | 1.3% |
GPTBot carries a 12.6% Disallow rate — the highest of any agent in Botswana. CCBot follows at 9.7%. ClaudeBot and Google-Extended are exactly tied at 8.8% each. ChatGPT-User leads the Allow side at 2.7%.
Multiple Botswana sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Foreign Language, Retail, and Visual Art all reach 100% — every sampled domain names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Visual Art and Foreign Language are notable presences on a list usually led by more commercially active sectors.
Botswana's Airlines sites sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% |
| Crafts | 80% |
| Sporting Goods | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Visual Art | 70% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 60% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Biotech | 60% |
Airlines tops Botswana's bot Allow chart at 90%. Crafts (80%) and Sporting Goods (80%) rank joint second — two niche consumer sectors rarely seen this high on an allowlist. Automotive, Photography, Publishing, Real Estate, Retail, Science, Travel & Tourism, and Visual Art follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Three Botswana sectors carry a Moderate median access tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury (tier_mean 3.00), Sporting Goods (2.60), and Computer Hardware and Hospitality (both 2.40) all record a median Zyte tier of 3. Three sectors sharing a Moderate median is the highest count in this five-country dataset. Human Resources follows at mean 2.20 with 70% Antibot adoption.
Adult and Advertising sites share Botswana's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 40% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 80% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 90% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Investment | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Adult and Advertising & Marketing both record a mean Zyte tier of 1.70 — the lowest in this group. Despite high barrier adoption (Adult: 80% JavaScript, 40% Antibot and CAPTCHA), retrieval at Tier 1–2 remains the modal outcome. Eleven other sectors in this group cluster at 1.80–2.00.