Overview
JavaScript leads Cameroon's secondary barriers by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 39.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.6% |
| TLS | 18% |
WAF covers 93.0% of Cameroon's 1,073 sites. JavaScript (39.9%) leads secondary barriers, ahead of CAPTCHA (23.0%), TLS (18.0%), Antibot (19.8%), and Rate Limiting (12.6%).
Barrier Landscape
TLS is Cameroon's only secondary barrier above its peers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 39.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.6% |
| TLS | 18% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.9% |
WAF reaches 93.0% across 1,073 Cameroon sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 39.9%, ahead of CAPTCHA (23.0%), Antibot (19.8%), TLS (18.0%), and Rate Limiting (12.6%).
Two barriers is Cameroon's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 32.5% |
| 2 barriers | 34.2% |
| 3 barriers | 16.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 4.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
34.2% of Cameroon sites deploy exactly two barriers, making two the modal count. 32.5% carry one. 4.0% have no barriers at all. 29.3% deploy three or more, with four sites reaching all six.
Exactly half of Cameroon's sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The browser median is Tier 1, with exactly 50.3% of Cameroon's 1,073 sites at that tier — just clearing the threshold. The mean of 1.64 reflects a substantial Tier 2 cohort (38.3%) pulling the average upward.
Nearly nine in ten Cameroon sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
50.3% of Cameroon sites resolve at Tier 1 (Simple) and 38.3% at Tier 2 (Easy) — 88.6% combined. Tier 3 accounts for 8.7%. Tiers 4 and 5 together cover 2.8% of the 1,073-domain sample.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Cameroon's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.7% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.8% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named in 15.8% of all Cameroon sites' robots.txt files — the most-cited category. SEO audit tools (13.8%) and SEO/search indexing (13.7%) are effectively tied for second. Commercial scrapers reach 7.7%.
Blanket Disallow is Cameroon's least-used robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.9% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.2% |
81.5% of Cameroon sites publish a robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules lead at 40.9%. Blanket Disallow: / reaches only 2.2% — the lowest of any posture type — while mixed AI posture applies to 2.6% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Cameroon's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.3% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.1% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.5% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.3% of all Cameroon sites — more than any other AI agent. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow rules at 3.1%, ahead of GPTBot (2.2%) and OAI-SearchBot (2.2%).
Multiple Cameroon sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Biotech | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Design, Jewellery & Luxury, and Retail each reach 100%: every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Aerospace & Defence joins Adult, Apparel & Fashion, Automotive, Beauty & Cosmetics, Biotech, Civil Engineering, and others at 90%.
Cameroon's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Veterinary | 70% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 60% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Music | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
| Recreational Facilities | 60% |
Airlines, Market Research, Photography, Publishing, Real Estate, Retail, Travel & Tourism, and Veterinary all reach 70% for explicit bot Allow rules. Veterinary's inclusion in the top tier is distinctive.
Industry Patterns
Sporting Goods is Cameroon's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 80% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Sporting Goods posts a mean of 3.00 and a median of 3, the maximum in Cameroon's dataset. Furniture (mean 2.85, median 3) and Hospitality (mean 2.60, median 3) also place more than half their sites at or above Tier 3.
Cameroon's most accessible sectors share a floor mean tier of 1.80
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 80% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Ecology & Environment, Events, Libraries, Publishing, and Renewable Energy share the lowest mean retrieval tier at 1.80 among the fifteen most accessible sectors. Libraries records zero Rate Limiting and 0% TLS deployment.