Overview
JavaScript leads Cabo Verde's secondary barriers by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 16.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 40.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.4% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
WAF dominates at 93.9%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 40.6% — well ahead of CAPTCHA at 24.1%, TLS at 17.4%, and Antibot at 16.7%. Rate Limiting is lightest at 10.4%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Cabo Verde's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 16.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 40.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.4% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.7% |
WAF is near-universal at 93.9%. Of the remaining five barriers, JavaScript leads at 40.6%, followed by CAPTCHA at 24.1%, TLS at 17.4%, and Antibot at 16.7%. Rate Limiting is lightest at 10.4%.
Two barriers is Cabo Verde's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 31.2% |
| 2 barriers | 36.8% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 6.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
36.8% of Cabo Verde sites carry exactly two barriers. A further 28.0% stack three or more. Just 4.0% of sites operate with no barriers at all.
Most Cabo Verde sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The recommended browser tier has a median of 1 and a mean of 1.59. More than half of Cabo Verde sites are accessible at Tier 1, with the mean pulled upward by a minority requiring more capable retrieval.
Nine in ten Cabo Verde sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 54.8% |
| 2 - Easy | 34.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.3% |
Tier 1 accounts for 54.8% of Cabo Verde sites, Tier 2 for a further 34.7%. Tiers 4 and 5 combined cover just 2.8% — retrieval complexity is concentrated in the lower tiers.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are Cabo Verde's most-named robots.txt bot category
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are referenced in 16.6% of all Cabo Verde sites — the highest category rate. SEO / search indexing follows at 13.2%, with SEO audit tools at 12.2%.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Cabo Verde's robots.txt postures
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply to 41.7% of all sites; path-level mixed rules cover a further 34.3%. 18.3% of sites have no robots.txt at all. Blanket Disallow: / accounts for just 2.6%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Cabo Verde's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.6% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.5% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.3% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.7% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 6.4% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.4% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 1.2% |
GPTBot carries the highest block rate at 11.6% of all Cabo Verde sites. ChatGPT-User leads explicit allows at 2.5%, above PerplexityBot at 2.1% and OAI-SearchBot at 1.8%.
Multiple Cabo Verde sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Tobacco | 100% |
| Wholesalers | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Biotech | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% |
| Construction | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Apparel & Fashion, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Retail, Tobacco, and Wholesalers each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict.
Publishing and Wholesalers lead Cabo Verde's explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 80% |
| Wholesalers | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Manufacturing | 60% |
Publishing and Wholesalers each have an 80% explicit Allow rate — the highest in Cabo Verde. Airlines, Architecture, Automotive, Construction, Oil & Gas, Photography, Retail, Sports, and Travel & Tourism all reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is Cabo Verde's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware has the highest mean recommended tier at 2.60. Real Estate (2.50), Furniture (2.40), and Jewellery & Luxury (2.40) follow. All fifteen top sectors sit within a tight band between 2.10 and 2.60.
Import & Export, Government, and Biotech are Cabo Verde's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Legal | 100% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
The most accessible sectors in Cabo Verde — Import & Export, Government, and Biotech — each have a mean tier of 1.70. All fifteen bottom-group sectors sit between 1.70 and 2.00, a narrow accessibility band.