Overview
JavaScript is Gabon's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 18.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 38.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.4% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
WAF reaches 93.3% of Gabonese sites. Among secondaries, CAPTCHA (22.2%) leads Antibot (18.2%). JavaScript stands at 38.4%, TLS at 17.3%, and Rate Limiting at 11.4%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Gabon's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 18.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 38.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.4% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.5% |
WAF is present on 93.3% of Gabonese sites. CAPTCHA (22.2%) leads Antibot (18.2%) among secondary barriers. Rate Limiting is the lowest secondary at 11.4%.
One barrier is Gabon's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 35.1% |
| 2 barriers | 33.2% |
| 3 barriers | 15.4% |
| 4 barriers | 7.4% |
| 5 barriers | 4.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
35.1% of Gabonese sites carry exactly one barrier, making it the modal count — more than the 33.2% with two. Zero-barrier sites account for 4.3%. Three or more barriers total 27.4%.
Most Gabon sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser-based mean recommended tier of 1.58 and median of 1 indicate that more than half of Gabonese sites resolve at Tier 1, requiring only basic HTTP retrieval.
Nine in ten Gabon sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 54.8% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 covers 54.8% of Gabonese sites; Tier 2 adds 35.2%, for a combined 90.0%. Tier 3 accounts for 7.6%, with Tiers 4 and 5 together at 2.4%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Gabon's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers appear in 16.7% of all Gabonese sites, the leading category. SEO/search indexing follows at 13.8%, and SEO audit tools at 13.1%.
Uniform per-agent rules are Gabon's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
39.6% of all Gabonese sites use uniform per-agent rules with no path mixing. Path-level mixed rules account for 35.3%. Allow-only posture — no Disallow rules — applies to 3.1%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Gabon's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.5% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 9.2% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.7% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 9% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 3% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.5% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.3% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.1% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.5% of all Gabonese sites — the highest block rate. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow listings at 3.0%.
Multiple Gabon sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Maritime | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Oil & Gas | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail each reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule.
Airlines and Publishing share Gabon's top explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Outsourcing | 66.7% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 62.5% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 60% |
| Mental Health | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
Airlines and Publishing both reach 80% explicit Allow rate — the highest in Gabon. Investment, Market Research, Photography, Retail, and Travel & Tourism follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Gabon's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 50% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads Gabon's hardest sectors with a mean recommended tier of 2.60 and a median of 3. Computer Hardware and Real Estate follow at tier_mean 2.50.
Advertising and Gaming sites share Gabon's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Utility | 83.3% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 50% | 0% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 70% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 100% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing and Computer & Video Games share the lowest mean tier in Gabon at 1.70. Thirteen other sectors in this group sit at mean tiers between 1.80 and 2.00.