Overview
CAPTCHA and Antibot are nearly tied as Ghana's second secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 22.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.9% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
WAF covers 92.8% of Ghanaian sites. CAPTCHA (23.8%) and Antibot (22.7%) are separated by just one point. JavaScript reaches 42.7%, with TLS at 18.4% and Rate Limiting at 13.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Ghana's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 22.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.9% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.8% |
WAF is present on 92.8% of Ghanaian sites. JavaScript (42.7%) leads among secondary barriers. CAPTCHA (23.8%) and Antibot (22.7%) are nearly equal; Rate Limiting stands at 13.9%.
Two-barrier sites are Ghana's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 27.9% |
| 2 barriers | 34.8% |
| 3 barriers | 18.7% |
| 4 barriers | 9.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
34.8% of Ghanaian sites deploy exactly two barriers, the most common configuration. Zero-barrier sites total 4.6%. Sites with three or more barriers account for 32.8%.
Most Ghana sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The browser-based mean recommended tier for Ghanaian sites is 1.72. A median of 2 means more sites require standard browser rendering than resolve at Tier 1.
Most Ghana sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 46.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 11% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
46.1% of Ghanaian sites sit at Tier 1; Tier 2 adds 39.7%. Tier 3 accounts for 11.0% — a pronounced mid-tier share. Tiers 4 and 5 together total 3.2%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Ghana's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in 15.7% of all Ghanaian sites. SEO audit tools follow at 13.5% and SEO/search indexing at 12.1%, making Ghana's top three the tightest cluster of the group.
Uniform rules are Ghana's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.5% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
41.5% of all Ghanaian sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules account for 32.3%. Mixed AI posture — blocking some agents while allowing others — applies to 3.0% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Ghana's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.4% |
| CCBot | 8.2% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.3% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.1% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 6.7% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.6% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 3% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.5% | 2.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.0% of all Ghanaian sites. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow listings at 3.0%, followed by OAI-SearchBot at 2.9%.
Multiple Ghana sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Veterinary | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Veterinary each reach a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict.
Eight Ghana sectors share the top explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Training & Cert. | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
No sector reaches 80%. Eight sectors — Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, Sporting Goods, Textiles & Nonwovens, and Training & Cert. — each record a 70% explicit Allow rate.
Industry Patterns
Furniture is Ghana's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Furniture leads Ghana's hardest sectors with a mean recommended tier of 2.95 and a median of 3 — the closest to the tier ceiling of any sector. Jewellery & Luxury and Real Estate follow at 2.90.
Insurance sites are Ghana's most accessible
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Insurance records Ghana's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.90. Fourteen other sectors in the bottom group share tier_mean values between 2.00 and 2.10, a narrow accessibility band.