Overview
JavaScript is Lesotho's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 19.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.8% |
| JavaScript | 39.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.1% |
| TLS | 16.6% |
WAF reaches 93.5% across Lesotho's 875 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 39.8%, followed by CAPTCHA at 25.8%, Antibot at 19.3%, TLS at 16.6%, and Rate Limiting at 12.1%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript outranks Antibot in Lesotho's secondary barrier deployment
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 19.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.8% |
| JavaScript | 39.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.1% |
| TLS | 16.6% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15% |
WAF dominates at 93.5%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 39.8%, followed by CAPTCHA at 25.8% and Antibot at 19.3%. CAPTCHA exceeds Antibot deployment across Lesotho's 875 surveyed sites.
Two-barrier sites are Lesotho's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 31.3% |
| 2 barriers | 33.6% |
| 3 barriers | 19.1% |
| 4 barriers | 6.6% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
4.5% of Lesotho's 875 sites present no detectable barriers. Two barriers is the modal count at 33.6% of sites — edging out single-barrier at 31.3%. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.6%.
Most Lesotho sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
Lesotho's browser median of 1 and mean of 1.54 reflect a predominantly simple access landscape. Tier 1 covers 59.1% of sites; the remaining 40.9% require browser-level retrieval or above.
Nine in ten Lesotho sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 59.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 30.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 covers 59.1% of Lesotho's sites and Tier 2 adds 30.7%, for a combined share of 89.8%. Tier 3 accounts for 8.0%, Tier 4 for 1.7%, and Tier 5 for 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead Lesotho's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 16.8% of Lesotho's 875 sites — the highest of any category. SEO audit tools follow at 14.5%, and SEO / search indexing at 12.0%. All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites.
Path-mixed rules nearly match uniform rules in Lesotho's posture profile
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.6% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 1.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3% |
17.8% of Lesotho's sites have no robots.txt. Of all 875 sites, uniform per-agent rules cover 40.7% and path-level mixed rules cover 35.8% — a gap of just five points. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.0%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Lesotho's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.5% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 9.7% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.4% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.5% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 8.3% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.9% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.9% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.7% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 1.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 1% |
Of 875 surveyed sites, GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 11.5% — the highest of any AI agent. CCBot follows at 9.7% and ClaudeBot at 9.4%. ChatGPT-User leads explicit allows at 2.6%.
Multiple Lesotho sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Telecom | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Architecture | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
Design, Food & Beverages, Retail, and Telecom each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict. Ten further sectors stand at 90%.
Lesotho's Airlines sites sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% |
| Architecture | 80% |
| Hospitality | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
Airlines has the highest named-bot Allow rate in Lesotho at 90% of sites in the sector. Architecture follows at 80%. Seven further sectors reach 70%. Figures reflect sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Food & Beverages is Lesotho's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Food & Beverages tops Lesotho's difficulty ranking with a mean browser tier of 2.55. Apparel & Fashion, Computer Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Human Resources, and Retail all follow at 2.30.
Three Lesotho sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 80% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer & Video Games, Education, and Museums are Lesotho's most accessible industries, each averaging a mean browser tier of 1.60. Government at 1.75 is the next easiest.