Overview
Côte d'Ivoire's six barrier rates track a typical profile across all measures
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 40.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
Côte d'Ivoire's six barrier rates track the global profile with unusual precision: WAF 93.5%, JavaScript 40.5%, CAPTCHA 23.0%, Antibot 19.8%, TLS 17.2%, and Rate Limiting 13.0% — each within one percentage point of global.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Côte d'Ivoire's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 40.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12.1% |
WAF covers 93.5% of Côte d'Ivoire's 1,076 sites. JavaScript (40.5%) is the strongest secondary barrier, followed by CAPTCHA (23.0%), Antibot (19.8%), TLS (17.2%), and Rate Limiting (13.0%).
Two barriers is Côte d'Ivoire's modal configuration by a narrow margin
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.1% |
| 1 barrier | 32.2% |
| 2 barriers | 34% |
| 3 barriers | 16.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.6% |
| 5 barriers | 4.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
34.0% of Côte d'Ivoire sites carry exactly two barriers, making two the modal count. Single-barrier sites follow closely at 32.2%. Zero-barrier sites stand at 4.1% and three-or-more at 29.7%.
Most Côte d'Ivoire sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
More than half of Côte d'Ivoire's sites resolve at Tier 1 (Simple), placing the median at 1. The browser mean of 1.61 reflects a tail of sites at higher tiers — primarily Tier 2 (36.2%) and Tier 3 (8.4%).
Nine in ten Côte d'Ivoire sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.9% |
| 2 - Easy | 36.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
52.9% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 36.2% at Tier 2 (Easy) — 89.1% of the sample combined. Tier 3 covers 8.4%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for just 2.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in Côte d'Ivoire
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.2% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers appear in 14.1% of all Côte d'Ivoire sites' robots.txt files — the highest of any category. SEO/search indexing (13.3%) and SEO audit tools (12.7%) follow closely. Commercial and social scrapers run at 7.2% and 6.8%.
Uniform rules are Côte d'Ivoire's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.6% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
79.8% of Côte d'Ivoire's sites publish a robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules are the most common posture at 40.8%. Mixed AI posture — blocking some AI agents while allowing others — appears on 2.5% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Côte d'Ivoire's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 9.8% | 2.7% |
| CCBot | 7.3% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 6.4% | 1.5% |
| Google-Extended | 7.1% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 5.4% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.7% | 0.5% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.2% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.4% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 3.6% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.9% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 9.8% of all Côte d'Ivoire sites. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow rules at 2.8% — ahead of GPTBot (2.7%), an unusual ordering across the AI agent set.
Multiple Côte d'Ivoire sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Printing, and Retail each reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Adult, Apparel & Fashion, Beauty & Cosmetics, Civil Engineering, Food & Beverages, and others follow at 90%.
Airlines and Sporting Goods share Côte d'Ivoire's top bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Sporting Goods | 80% |
| Agriculture | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Healthcare | 70% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
Airlines and Sporting Goods both reach 80% for explicit bot Allow rules — tied at the top. Agriculture, Automotive, Healthcare, Market Research, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, Textiles, and Travel & Tourism each follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury sites are Côte d'Ivoire's hardest to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 70% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 60% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads at a mean retrieval tier of 2.90, with a median of 3 — indicating more than half its sites require at least a Moderate tier. Real Estate also reaches median Tier 3, with a mean of 2.70.
Seven Côte d'Ivoire sectors share the most accessible floor at mean Simple.80
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 50% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
The bottom of Côte d'Ivoire's accessibility range clusters tightly: Advertising & Marketing, Banking, Computers & Electronics, Crafts, Equipment & Supplies, Music, and Recruitment & Staffing all record a mean retrieval tier of 1.80.