Overview
JavaScript is Comoros's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 90.9% |
| Antibot | 12.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 19.1% |
| JavaScript | 38.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.5% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
WAF covers 90.9% of Comoros's 440 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads non-WAF barriers at 38.4%. Antibot adoption at 12.3% is notably restrained, sitting below CAPTCHA (19.1%) and TLS (18.2%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Comoros's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 90.9% |
| Antibot | 12.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 19.1% |
| JavaScript | 38.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.5% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 18.2% |
WAF stands at 90.9% across Comoros's 440 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads non-WAF barriers at 38.4%. Antibot at 12.3% is the lightest of the five secondary barriers, trailing TLS (18.2%) and CAPTCHA (19.1%).
Single-barrier sites are Comoros's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5% |
| 1 barrier | 37% |
| 2 barriers | 34.3% |
| 3 barriers | 15% |
| 4 barriers | 5.2% |
| 5 barriers | 2.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.7% |
5.0% of Comoros's 440 sites deploy no detectable barrier. The modal outcome is one barrier at 37.0%. Sites stacking three or more account for 23.6% — the lowest high-barrier share among these five surveyed countries.
Most Comoros sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser mean of 1.56 and median of 1 place Comoros firmly in simple-access territory. Tier 1 accounts for 56.1% of sites; combined Tiers 1–2 reach 91.1%, the highest of these five countries.
Most Comoros sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 56.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 35% |
| 3 - Moderate | 5.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.2% |
Tier 1 accounts for 56.1% of Comoros's 440 sites and Tier 2 for 35.0% — a combined 91.1%. Tier 3 applies to 5.7%, Tier 4 to 3.0%, and Tier 5 to just 0.2%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Comoros's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 20.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 15.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 17.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 10.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 9.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 7.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.9% |
AI crawlers are mentioned by 20.7% of Comoros's 440 sites — the most of any category and the highest AI crawler rate among these five countries. SEO audit tools follow at 17.7%, ahead of SEO / search indexing at 15.9%. Figures include all sites, with or without robots.txt.
Uniform rules are Comoros's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.7% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules account for 41.1% of all 440 Comoros sites — the most common posture. Path-mixed rules cover 34.1%. Mixed AI posture (blocking some agents, allowing others) applies to 5.0% of sites. The remaining 18.2% have no robots.txt.
ChatGPT-User leads Comoros' explicit bot Allow rate
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.1% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.5% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.3% | 0.7% |
| Google-Extended | 10.9% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 8.2% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.6% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7.7% | 4.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 8.9% | 2.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.5% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.8% | 3.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 0.5% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 11.1% of Comoros's 440 sites. Google-Extended follows at 10.9%. ChatGPT-User carries the highest explicit Allow rate at 4.8% — the highest of any agent across these five countries.
Design and Photography name at least one bot on every Comoros site
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Photography | 100% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Retail | 90% |
| Adult | 80% |
| Airlines | 80% |
| Computer & Video Games | 80% |
| Distance Learning | 80% |
| Government | 80% |
| Import & Export | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
Design and Photography each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Six sectors follow at 90%, including Automotive, Mass Media, and Retail.
Comoros's Import & Export sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Import & Export | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Sports | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Adult | 50% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 50% |
| Computer & Video Games | 50% |
| Distance Learning | 50% |
| General | 50% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Newspapers | 50% |
Import & Export has the highest explicit bot Allow rate in Comoros at 80% of its sites. Airlines and Photography each reach 70%. Eight further sectors cluster at 50–60%, including Publishing, Retail, and Software & Dev.
Industry Patterns
Airlines and Travel & Tourism are Comoros's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 70% | 0% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 0% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 80% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Airlines and Travel & Tourism share mean tier 2.40 — the highest in Comoros's surveyed industries. Retail follows at 2.10. Industries ranked by mean recommended browser tier.
Government is Comoros's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 70% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 80% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 80% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 60% | 80% | 80% | 40% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 60% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | 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 |
| Science | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
Government records a mean browser tier of 1.45 — the lowest in Comoros's bottom-15 industries. Seven sectors cluster at mean tier 1.50, forming the next most accessible group.