Overview
JavaScript is Djibouti's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.5% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.5% |
| JavaScript | 38.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.5% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
WAF leads at 91.5%. JavaScript is the most common secondary barrier at 38.3%. CAPTCHA (21.5%), Antibot (18.8%), and TLS (18.5%) follow, with Rate Limiting the least deployed at 11.5%.
Barrier Landscape
CAPTCHA is Djibouti's most-deployed secondary challenge barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.5% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.5% |
| JavaScript | 38.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.5% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 77.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.2% |
WAF is the near-universal barrier at 91.5%. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 38.3%. CAPTCHA (21.5%), Antibot (18.8%), and TLS (18.5%) follow. Rate Limiting records the lowest adoption at 11.5%.
One-barrier and two-barrier sites are almost evenly split in Djibouti
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.3% |
| 1 barrier | 33.4% |
| 2 barriers | 33.5% |
| 3 barriers | 16.2% |
| 4 barriers | 7.1% |
| 5 barriers | 3.9% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Sites with exactly one barrier (33.4%) and those with two (33.5%) are nearly tied — a near-even split at the modal count. 5.3% of sites carry no barriers; 27.7% deploy three or more.
Most Djibouti 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. A majority of Djibouti sites are resolved at the simplest retrieval tier, with the mean drawn upward by sites requiring more complex access.
Nearly nine in ten Djibouti sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 33.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
More than half of Djibouti sites sit at Tier 1. Tier 2 adds a further 33.9%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for just 2.5% of sites — the tail of high-complexity retrieval is narrow.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Djibouti's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named in 17.0% of all Djibouti sites. SEO audit tools follow at 14.5% — a narrower gap than in most markets. SEO / search indexing comes third at 12.8%.
Uniform rules edge path-mixed posture in Djibouti's robots.txt profile
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 37.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 37.3% of all Djibouti sites; path-level mixed rules are nearly as common at 35.1%. 22.5% of sites have no robots.txt. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Djibouti's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.4% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.7% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.8% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 9.1% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.9% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.7% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 7% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.5% | 0.1% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.8% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.9% |
GPTBot is blocked on 11.4% of all Djibouti sites. CCBot follows at 9.7% and Google-Extended at 9.1%. ChatGPT-User leads explicit allows at 2.8%, ahead of PerplexityBot at 2.2%.
Multiple Djibouti sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% |
| Real Estate | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
Four Djibouti sectors — Design, Equipment & Supplies, Real Estate, and Retail — each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate. Every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in its robots.txt.
Consulting, Oil & Gas, and Retail lead Djibouti's explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Consulting | 80% |
| Oil & Gas | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 60% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Ecology & Environment | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
Consulting and Oil & Gas have the highest explicit Allow rates in Djibouti at 80%. Retail also reaches 80%. Photography, Real Estate, Telecom, and Travel & Tourism each sit at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Djibouti's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 25% | 25% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 37.5% | 62.5% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Retail records the highest mean recommended tier at 2.50. Apparel & Fashion and Consumer Electronics follow at 2.30. The top fifteen hardest sectors span a mean tier range from 2.00 to 2.50.
Advertising & Marketing sites are Djibouti's most accessible
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banking | 100% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 80% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 83.3% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 50% | 0% | 33.3% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing records the lowest mean tier in Djibouti's bottom group at 1.60. Manufacturing follows at 1.67. Most accessible sectors in this group range between 1.60 and 1.90.