Overview
CAPTCHA edges out Antibot for second place in Equatorial Guinea
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 18.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.9% |
| JavaScript | 40.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF reaches 93.6% of Equatorial Guinea's 724 sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.1%. CAPTCHA (24.9%) and Antibot (18.6%) follow, with Rate Limiting (11.6%) and TLS (17.5%) at lower adoption.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Equatorial Guinea's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 18.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.9% |
| JavaScript | 40.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.7% |
Of Equatorial Guinea's six surveyed barriers, WAF stands at 93.6% and JavaScript at 40.1%. Rate Limiting is the least deployed secondary barrier at 11.6% — lower than TLS at 17.5%.
Two barriers is Equatorial Guinea's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 33.1% |
| 2 barriers | 34.1% |
| 3 barriers | 15.7% |
| 4 barriers | 7.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.6% |
4.0% of Equatorial Guinea's sites deploy no detectable barrier. Two barriers is the single most common outcome at 34.1%. Sites stacking three or more account for 28.7%.
Most Equatorial Guinea sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser mean of 1.61 and median of 1 place Equatorial Guinea firmly in simple-access territory. Tier 1 covers 54.7% of sites; Tiers 3–5 affect just 11.8%.
Nine in ten Equatorial Guinea sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 54.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 33.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 accounts for 54.7% of Equatorial Guinea's 724 sites and Tier 2 for 33.4% — a combined 88.1%. Tier 3 applies to 8.4% of sites, Tier 4 to 3.0%, and Tier 5 to 0.4%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead Equatorial Guinea's bot categories by a narrow margin
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 16.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 8.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are mentioned by 17.5% of Equatorial Guinea's 724 sites — the most named of any category. SEO / search indexing follow at 16.6% and SEO audit tools at 15.2%. Figures include sites without a robots.txt file.
Uniform and path-mixed postures are nearly tied in Equatorial Guinea
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 37.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 37.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.5% |
Uniform per-agent rules account for 37.8% of all 724 sites; path-level mixed rules stand at 37.6%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 3.5%. The remaining 18.2% of sites have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Equatorial Guinea's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.3% | 3% |
| CCBot | 7.3% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.6% | 2.1% |
| Bytespider | 6.4% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.5% | 0.8% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 3.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.8% | 3.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.4% | 0.7% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.1% | 1.5% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 11.3% of Equatorial Guinea's 724 sites — the highest block rate among AI agents. ChatGPT-User carries the highest explicit Allow rate at 3.7%.
Five Equatorial Guinea sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Oil & Gas | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| Computer Hardware | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Science | 90% |
Design, Newspapers, Oil & Gas, Publishing, and Retail each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict. Ten additional sectors sit at 90%.
Equatorial Guinea's Publishing and Retail sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Healthcare | 70% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Wellness | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Mail & Delivery | 66.7% |
| Ecology & Environment | 62.5% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
Publishing and Retail each show an 80% explicit bot Allow rate in Equatorial Guinea. Airlines, Healthcare, Import & Export, Photography, Science, Wellness, and Wholesalers all follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Human Resources is Equatorial Guinea's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Resources | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 80% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Human Resources posts the highest mean browser tier in Equatorial Guinea at 2.70. Consumer Electronics and Retail follow at 2.50. High Antibot and CAPTCHA rates drive the Human Resources figure.
Healthcare and Oil & Gas share Equatorial Guinea's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 70% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 80% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 16.7% | 0% | 83.3% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 70% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 100% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Healthcare and Oil & Gas record mean tier 1.60 — the lowest of any sector in Equatorial Guinea's bottom-15 industries. Government sits just above at 1.65. Both sectors show zero Antibot adoption.