Overview
JavaScript leads Eritrea's secondary barriers, with CAPTCHA next
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 16.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.8% |
| TLS | 15.7% |
WAF leads at 93.5%. JavaScript reaches 39.6% — the top secondary barrier. CAPTCHA follows at 25.3%, outpacing Antibot (16.1%) and TLS (15.7%). Rate Limiting is the lightest at 9.8%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Eritrea's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 16.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.8% |
| TLS | 15.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 83.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 18.1% |
WAF is near-universal at 93.5%. JavaScript leads the secondary barriers at 39.6%. CAPTCHA follows at 25.3%. Antibot (16.1%) and TLS (15.7%) sit in a cluster, with Rate Limiting the lowest at 9.8%.
Two-barrier sites are Eritrea's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.6% |
| 1 barrier | 34% |
| 2 barriers | 37.6% |
| 3 barriers | 13.2% |
| 4 barriers | 7.4% |
| 5 barriers | 3.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
Sites with exactly two barriers account for 37.6% of Eritrea — the modal count. A further 24.8% stack three or more. The zero-barrier share at 3.6% is below the 5% level, indicating few entirely unprotected sites.
Most Eritrea 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 1.55. More than half of Eritrea sites resolve at Tier 1 — with a mean that signals a high concentration at the simplest retrieval level.
Nine in ten Eritrea sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 32.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 accounts for 57.7% of Eritrea sites. Tier 2 adds 32.7%. Tiers 3 through 5 together cover just 9.6%, with Tier 5 (Advanced) at 0.7% — the complex-retrieval tail is notably short.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Eritrea's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 19.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 15% |
| Commercial scrapers | 11.2% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers appear in 19.5% of all Eritrea sites — the highest category rate. SEO audit tools follow at 15.0%, then commercial scrapers at 11.2%, which is notably high relative to SEO indexing at 11.6%.
Uniform rules are Eritrea's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 1.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 4.3% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 43.0% of all Eritrea sites. Blanket Disallow: / accounts for 4.3% — above the 2–3% level typical in this dataset. Only 16.3% of sites have no robots.txt at all.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Eritrea's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 14.8% | 1.1% |
| CCBot | 13% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 11.9% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 11% | 1.1% |
| Bytespider | 9.6% | 0.7% |
| meta-externalagent | 5.6% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7.2% | 1.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 9.2% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 6.5% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.7% | 0.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 7.4% | 0.2% |
GPTBot is blocked on 14.8% of all Eritrea sites — the highest block rate across the five countries in this review. CCBot follows at 13.0%, ClaudeBot at 11.9%. ChatGPT-User leads allows at 1.3%.
Multiple Eritrea sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Sports | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 87.5% |
| Wholesalers | 83.3% |
Six Eritrea sectors — Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, Newspapers, Retail, and Sports — each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate. Every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt.
Eritrea's Publishing sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 90% |
| Design | 85.7% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 75% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 66.7% |
| Computers & Electronics | 60% |
| Entertainment | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Wellness | 60% |
| General | 50% |
| Healthcare | 50% |
| IT Services | 50% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Non-Profit | 50% |
Publishing has the highest explicit Allow rate in Eritrea at 90%. Design follows at 85.7% and Advertising & Marketing at 75.0%. Retail sits at 70%, with Wholesalers at 66.7% and Computers & Electronics at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Eritrea's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 10% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 71.4% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 57.1% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 80% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Retail records the highest mean recommended tier in Eritrea at 2.30. Science and Sports follow at 2.10. The remaining twelve sectors in the top group span a mean tier between 1.50 and 2.00 — a compressed difficulty range.
Entertainment is Eritrea's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellness | 100% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Wholesalers | 83.3% | 0% | 33.3% | 50% | 0% | 33.3% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 1 |
| Banking | 100% | 11.1% | 22.2% | 22.2% | 11.1% | 0% | 55.6% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 90% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 70% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Telecom | 80% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Design | 100% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 0% | 100% | 28.6% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 100% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 1 |
Entertainment has the lowest mean recommended tier in Eritrea at 1.40, with a tier median of 1. Eleven sectors in the bottom group carry a tier median of 1 — a broad band of sites resolvable at the simplest retrieval level.