Overview
JavaScript leads Gambia's secondary barriers, ahead of CAPTCHA
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 36.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.3% |
WAF reaches 93.4% of Gambian sites. JavaScript (36.8%) leads secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA at 24.5% and TLS at 18.3%. Antibot stands at 20.1% and Rate Limiting at 11.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Gambia's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 36.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.5% |
WAF is present on 93.4% of Gambian sites. JavaScript (36.8%) leads secondary barriers, ahead of CAPTCHA at 24.5% and TLS at 18.3%. Rate Limiting is the lowest secondary at 11.9%.
One barrier is Gambia's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.5% |
| 1 barrier | 34.9% |
| 2 barriers | 32.3% |
| 3 barriers | 16.3% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
34.9% of Gambian sites carry exactly one barrier — the modal count. Zero-barrier sites are the lowest in this group at 3.5%. Sites with three or more barriers total 29.2%.
Most Gambia sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser-based mean recommended tier of 1.57 and median of 1 confirm that more than half of Gambian sites are retrievable at the simplest level without browser rendering.
Most Gambia sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 56.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 33.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 covers 56.1% of Gambian sites — the highest Tier 1 share in this group. Tier 2 adds 33.6%. Tier 3 accounts for 7.7%; Tiers 4 and 5 together total 2.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Gambia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.8% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in 16.4% of all Gambian sites. SEO audit tools follow closely at 14.8% — the smallest gap between the top two categories. SEO/search indexing stands at 12.6%.
Uniform rules are Gambia's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 4.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.2% |
40.9% of all Gambian sites apply uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules cover 34.0%. Allow-only posture — Disallow-free files — accounts for 4.2% of all Gambian sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Gambia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.5% | 1.6% |
| CCBot | 8.7% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 9% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7.5% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.6% | 2.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.6% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.2% | 0.1% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.5% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.5% of all Gambian sites. Unusually, PerplexityBot tops the explicit Allow list at 2.5%, ahead of ChatGPT-User at 2.3%.
Multiple Gambia sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Graphic Design | 100% |
| Social & Charitable | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Photography | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Consumer Electronics, Design, Entertainment, Graphic Design, Social & Charitable, and Visual Art each reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule.
Airlines, Hospitality, and Social & Charitable share Gambia's top Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Hospitality | 80% |
| Social & Charitable | 80% |
| Market Research | 71.4% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Training & Cert. | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Design | 60% |
| Ecology & Environment | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Medical Devices | 60% |
Airlines, Hospitality, and Social & Charitable share Gambia's highest explicit Allow rate at 80%. Market Research follows at 71.4%; Investment, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Training & Cert. sit at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Retail is the only Gambia sector at a Moderate median tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 87.5% | 37.5% | 25% | 37.5% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 62.5% | 37.5% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Retail is the hardest sector in Gambia, with a mean recommended tier of 2.60 and a median of 3 — the only sector to reach that threshold. Computer Hardware and Hospitality follow at 2.35 and 2.30.
Eight Gambia sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 62.5% | 25% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 0% | 25% | 62.5% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Investment | 100% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 80% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Computer & Video Games, Distance Learning, Investment, Non-Profit, Photography, Publishing, and Recruitment & Staffing all record a mean recommended tier of 1.70 — Gambia's widest floor cluster.