Overview
JavaScript is Guinea's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 26.8% |
| JavaScript | 37.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
WAF reaches 93.3% of Guinean sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 37.4%, followed by CAPTCHA at 26.8% — the highest CAPTCHA rate in this group. Antibot stands at 19.6%, TLS at 18.6%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Guinea's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 26.8% |
| JavaScript | 37.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13% |
WAF is present on 93.3% of Guinean sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 37.4%, followed by CAPTCHA at 26.8% and Antibot at 19.6%. Rate Limiting stands at 12.0%.
Two barriers is Guinea's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 31.5% |
| 2 barriers | 35.3% |
| 3 barriers | 14.8% |
| 4 barriers | 9.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.7% |
35.3% of Guinean sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count. Zero-barrier sites account for 4.5%. Sites carrying three or more barriers total 28.8%.
Most Guinea sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The browser-based mean recommended tier is 1.55 and the median is 1, confirming more than half of Guinean sites are retrievable at Tier 1. The 1.55 mean is the most accessible in this country group.
Most Guinea sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 58.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 31% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 covers 58.5% of Guinean sites — the highest Tier 1 share in this group. Tier 2 accounts for 31.0%. Tier 3 stands at 8.2%, with Tiers 4 and 5 totalling 2.2%.
robots.txt
Guinea's top three bot categories cluster within one percentage point
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers (15.4%), SEO/search indexing (14.6%), and SEO audit tools (14.5%) occupy Guinea's top three positions, separated by less than one percentage point — the tightest cluster across all five countries.
Uniform rules are Guinea's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
40.2% of all Guinean sites apply uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules account for 34.7%. Allow-only posture — files with no Disallow rules — covers 3.3% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Guinea's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.5% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 8.2% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.5% | 0.8% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.6% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.4% | 1.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 10.5% of all Guinean sites. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow listings at 2.4%, followed by OAI-SearchBot at 1.7%.
Multiple Guinea sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Computer Hardware | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Ecology & Environment | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Design, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail each record a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict.
Guinea's Agriculture and Airlines sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | 80% |
| Airlines | 80% |
| Computer Hardware | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Sporting Goods | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Restaurants | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Training & Cert. | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
Agriculture, Airlines, Computer Hardware, Retail, and Sporting Goods all reach 80% explicit Allow rate. Agriculture's appearance at the top is distinctive among the five countries surveyed.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is Guinea's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 80% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware leads Guinea's hardest sectors with a mean recommended tier of 2.95 and a median of 3 — the only sector to reach that median. Retail follows at 2.50; Hospitality and Automotive at 2.40.
Advertising, Airlines, and Gaming share Guinea's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 80% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing, Airlines, and Computer & Video Games share Guinea's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.60. This floor is the most accessible of the five countries in this group.