Overview
JavaScript is Guinea-Bissau's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.1% |
| Antibot | 18.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.3% |
| JavaScript | 39.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 19% |
WAF reaches 94.1% of Guinea-Bissau's 489 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 39.9%. TLS (19.0%) outranks Antibot (18.2%) for third place — a distinct ordering in the secondary barrier profile.
Barrier Landscape
Rate Limiting is Guinea-Bissau's least-deployed secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.1% |
| Antibot | 18.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.3% |
| JavaScript | 39.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 19% |
| Has robots.txt | 80% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.1% |
WAF stands at 94.1% across Guinea-Bissau's 489 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads non-WAF barriers at 39.9%. TLS (19.0%) places ahead of Antibot (18.2%) in the secondary barrier ranking.
Single-barrier sites are Guinea-Bissau's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 33.5% |
| 2 barriers | 32.5% |
| 3 barriers | 14.7% |
| 4 barriers | 10% |
| 5 barriers | 4.9% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
4.3% of Guinea-Bissau's 489 sites deploy no detectable barrier. One barrier is the single most common configuration at 33.5%. No site in the survey deploys all six barriers simultaneously.
Most Guinea-Bissau sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser mean of 1.55 and median of 1 place Guinea-Bissau in simple-access territory. Tier 1 covers 58.7% of sites. Tiers 3–5 affect just 10.2% of the surveyed set.
Nine in ten Guinea-Bissau sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 58.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 31.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 accounts for 58.7% of Guinea-Bissau's 489 sites and Tier 2 for 31.1% — a combined 89.8%. Tier 3 applies to 7.6% of sites, Tier 4 to 2.2%, and Tier 5 to 0.4%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Guinea-Bissau's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 10.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers are mentioned by 16.2% of Guinea-Bissau's 489 sites. SEO audit tools rank second at 14.5% — ahead of SEO / search indexing at 12.9%. Figures include all sites, with or without robots.txt.
Uniform and path-mixed postures are exactly tied in Guinea-Bissau
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 36.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.5% |
Uniform per-agent rules and path-level mixed rules each account for exactly 36.8% of all 489 Guinea-Bissau sites. Blanket Disallow: / covers 3.5%. The remaining 20.0% have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Guinea-Bissau's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.7% | 1% |
| CCBot | 11.9% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 10.8% | 0.6% |
| Google-Extended | 10.6% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 9.6% | 0.8% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.5% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 1.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 8.2% | 1.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 7.2% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.5% | 1.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.5% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 12.7% of Guinea-Bissau's 489 sites. CCBot follows at 11.9%. OAI-SearchBot holds the highest explicit Allow rate at 1.6%.
Multiple Guinea-Bissau sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% |
| Distance Learning | 80% |
| Education | 80% |
| Entertainment | 80% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 80% |
| Import & Export | 80% |
Four sectors — Automotive, Design, Newspapers, and Retail — show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate: every site in each names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Five more sectors sit at 90%.
Guinea-Bissau's Publishing sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 90% |
| Market Research | 75% |
| Renewable Energy | 71.4% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Social & Charitable | 62.5% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Entertainment | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Wellness | 60% |
| Real Estate | 57.1% |
| Airlines | 50% |
Publishing has the highest explicit bot Allow rate in Guinea-Bissau at 90% of its sites. Market Research follows at 75% and Renewable Energy at 71.4%. Retail and Photography both reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Guinea-Bissau's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 100% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 50% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Retail posts the highest mean browser tier in Guinea-Bissau at 2.40. Automotive follows at 2.30. Five further sectors — Airlines, Consumer Electronics, Import & Export, Science, and Travel & Tourism — share mean tier 2.00.
Advertising sites are Guinea-Bissau's most accessible
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 80% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 81.8% | 18.2% | 18.2% | 45.5% | 9.1% | 9.1% | 81.8% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Sports | 90% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 100% | 10% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Healthcare | 90% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 14.3% | 28.6% | 42.9% | 28.6% | 0% | 85.7% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 1 |
Advertising & Mktg records a mean browser tier of 1.40 — the lowest in Guinea-Bissau's bottom-15 industries. Real Estate follows at 1.43. Ten sectors cluster at median tier 1 in this accessible group.