Overview
JavaScript is Liberia's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.9% |
| JavaScript | 37.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.7% |
WAF is near-universal at 92.9%. JavaScript is the most-deployed secondary barrier at 37.6%, ahead of CAPTCHA at 22.9%, Antibot at 19.0%, TLS at 17.7%, and Rate Limiting at 11.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript leads Liberia's secondary barriers well clear of all others
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.9% |
| JavaScript | 37.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
WAF reaches 92.9% across Liberia's 827 sites. JavaScript is the leading secondary barrier at 37.6% — 14.7 points ahead of CAPTCHA at 22.9%. Antibot (19.0%), TLS (17.7%), and Rate Limiting (11.9%) follow.
Single-barrier sites are Liberia's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 33.9% |
| 2 barriers | 32.8% |
| 3 barriers | 16.9% |
| 4 barriers | 8.6% |
| 5 barriers | 3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.5% of Liberia's sites present no detectable barriers. One barrier is the modal count at 33.9%. Sites carrying three or more barriers account for 28.9% of the total.
Most Liberia sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser median of 1 places the majority of Liberia's 827 sites at Tier 1. The mean of 1.55 reflects a tail of harder sites: 6.8% at Tier 3, 1.5% at Tier 4, and 0.5% at Tier 5.
Nine in ten Liberia sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 56% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 6.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 accounts for 56.0% of Liberia's sites; Tier 2 adds 35.3%, giving a combined Tier 1+2 share of 91.3%. Tier 3 covers 6.8%, Tier 4 covers 1.5%, and Tier 5 covers 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-named bot category in Liberia's robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 14.9% of Liberia's 827 sites — the highest of any category. SEO audit tools follow at 13.4%, and SEO / search indexing at 11.4%. All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites.
Uniform per-agent rules are Liberia's leading robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
17.8% of Liberia's sites carry no robots.txt. Of all 827 sites, 44.3% use uniform per-agent rules and 32.3% use path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / is applied by 2.4%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Liberia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.1% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 8.1% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.9% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.8% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.8% |
| meta-externalagent | 4% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 1.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 1.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.6% | 0.8% |
Of 827 surveyed sites, GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 11.1% — the highest of any AI agent. ClaudeBot follows at 8.9% and Google-Extended at 8.8%. GPTBot also leads explicit allows at 1.9%.
Multiple Liberia sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Adult | 100% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Libraries | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Sporting Goods | 88.9% |
Adult, Beauty & Cosmetics, Design, Newspapers, and Retail each have a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in these sectors names at least one bot to restrict. The next ranked sectors stand at 90%.
Liberia's Retail sites sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Museums | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 66.7% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
Retail has the highest named-bot Allow rate in Liberia at 80% of sites. Airlines, Museums, Photography, and Publishing each reach 70%. Figures reflect sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Liberia's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 88.9% | 11.1% | 33.3% | 11.1% | 11.1% | 33.3% | 88.9% | 11.1% | Tier 2 |
| Military | 50% | 0% | 0% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Retail tops Liberia's difficulty ranking with a mean browser tier of 2.50. Computer Hardware and Human Resources both follow at 2.30. All 15 industries share tier median 2, with the mean distinguishing their relative difficulty.
Beauty & Cosmetics and Manufacturing are Liberia's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 90% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 25% | 50% | 25% | 12.5% | 37.5% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 25% | 37.5% | 50% | 12.5% | 37.5% | 75% | 0% | Tier 2 |
The most accessible industries in Liberia are Beauty & Cosmetics and Manufacturing, each averaging a mean browser tier of 1.62. Customer Services at 1.67 is the next most accessible.