Overview
JavaScript is Central African Republic's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.8% |
| Antibot | 14% |
| CAPTCHA | 28% |
| JavaScript | 35.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.1% |
| TLS | 20.1% |
WAF covers 94.8% of sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 35.6%, followed by CAPTCHA at 28.0% and TLS at 20.1%. No site activates all six barriers.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Central African Republic's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.8% |
| Antibot | 14% |
| CAPTCHA | 28% |
| JavaScript | 35.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.1% |
| TLS | 20.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 17% |
WAF is the dominant barrier at 94.8%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 35.6%, ahead of CAPTCHA (28.0%) and TLS (20.1%). Rate Limiting is the least-deployed at 9.1% across 329 sites.
One and two barriers are equally common in Central African Republic
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2.1% |
| 1 barrier | 35% |
| 2 barriers | 35.3% |
| 3 barriers | 18.8% |
| 4 barriers | 4.6% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
35.0% of sites carry exactly one barrier and 35.3% carry two — effectively tied as the modal count. Just 2.1% have none. No Central African Republic site deploys all six barriers.
Most Central African Republic sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.4 |
Browser median is Tier 1 and mean is 1.45. Zero sites in the 329-domain sample require the most demanding Tier 5 retrieval, placing the entire population within the four most accessible tiers.
Two-thirds of Central African Republic sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 65.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 25.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
65.3% of Central African Republic sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 25.5% at Tier 2 (Easy). Tier 3 covers 7.6% and Tier 4 covers 1.5%. Tier 5 records 0.0% — no site in the sample reaches it.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in Central African Republic
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 18.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 15.5% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 14.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.9% |
AI crawlers appear in 18.2% of all Central African Republic sites' robots.txt files — the highest share of any bot category. SEO/search indexing and SEO audit tools tie for second at 15.5% each.
Uniform per-agent rules cover nearly half of Central African Republic sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 45.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 29.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.4% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 4.3% |
82.7% of Central African Republic sites publish a robots.txt. Among all sites, 45.3% apply uniform per-agent rules — the most common posture. Blanket Disallow: / reaches 4.3% and allow-only postures 3.3%.
ClaudeBot is the most-blocked AI agent in Central African Republic
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.9% | 0.9% |
| CCBot | 11.6% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 12.5% | 0.6% |
| Google-Extended | 9.7% | 0.9% |
| Bytespider | 10% | 0.9% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.9% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.5% | 1.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 9.4% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 8.2% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 1.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.6% | 0.6% |
ClaudeBot is named in a Disallow rule on 12.5% of all Central African Republic sites — the highest of any AI agent. GPTBot follows at 11.9% and CCBot at 11.6%. Allow rates remain below 2% for all agents.
All Central African Republic sectors name at least one bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Retail | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Training & Cert. | 85.7% |
| Adult | 80% |
| Healthcare | 80% |
| IT Services | 80% |
| Software & Dev | 80% |
| Banking | 77.8% |
| Distance Learning | 70% |
Entertainment and Publishing each reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. General, Mass Media, Newspapers, Online Services, Retail, and Telecom follow at 90%.
Central African Republic's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 80% |
| Software & Dev | 80% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Entertainment | 60% |
| General | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Mass Media | 60% |
| Online Services | 60% |
| Training & Cert. | 57.1% |
| Newspapers | 50% |
| Wellness | 50% |
| Adult | 40% |
| Computers & Electronics | 40% |
| Distance Learning | 40% |
| Healthcare | 40% |
Publishing and Software & Development sites each explicitly Allow at least one bot on 80% of their sites — and both sectors also appear in the top block list at 100%, indicating granular rather than blanket policies.
Industry Patterns
Non-Profit is Central African Republic's hardest sector at mean Easy tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Profit | 80% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| IT Services | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Consumer Electronics | 75% | 25% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 12.5% | 50% | 100% | 12.5% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 90% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 50% | Tier 1 |
| Adult | 100% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
Non-Profit and Retail lead the hardest sectors at a mean retrieval tier of 2.10. Most of the top 15 cluster between 1.40 and 1.90, a notably compact range with no sector exceeding tier 2.10.
Three Central African Republic sectors share a Simple mean access tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Wellness | 100% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Sports | 75% | 25% | 25% | 25% | 37.5% | 12.5% | 25% | 12.5% | Tier 1 |
| Airlines | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 66.7% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Banking | 77.8% | 0% | 0% | 33.3% | 0% | 11.1% | 77.8% | 11.1% | Tier 1 |
| Finance | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Telecom | 90% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 12.5% | 50% | 37.5% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 60% | Tier 1 |
| Religion & Belief | 100% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Hospitality | 83.3% | 33.3% | 50% | 66.7% | 0% | 16.7% | 50% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Training & Cert. | 100% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 0% | 0% | 14.3% | 100% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 100% | 0% | 80% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Social & Charitable | 100% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 33.3% | 66.7% | 16.7% | Tier 1 |
Computers & Electronics, Entertainment, and Social & Charitable Organizations each record a mean retrieval tier of 1.00 — the lowest in the country. Advertising & Marketing and Training & Certification reach 1.25 and 1.14 respectively.