Overview
JavaScript is Madagascar's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 20.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.2% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF reaches 92.6% across Madagascar's 1,098 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.8%. CAPTCHA (23.2%) and Antibot (20.1%) are closely matched, followed by TLS at 17.5% and Rate Limiting at 13.1%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Madagascar's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 20.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.2% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 80% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
WAF reaches 92.6% across Madagascar's 1,098 sites. JavaScript is the leading secondary barrier at 40.8%. CAPTCHA at 23.2%, Antibot at 20.1%, TLS at 17.5%, and Rate Limiting at 13.1% complete the secondary profile.
Two-barrier sites are Madagascar's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 29.6% |
| 2 barriers | 35.4% |
| 3 barriers | 17.8% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.9% of Madagascar's 1,098 sites present no detectable barriers. Two barriers is the modal count at 35.4% of sites. Sites carrying three or more barriers total 30.1% of the survey.
Exactly half of Madagascar's sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Madagascar's browser median of 1 reflects that 50.3% of its 1,098 sites resolve at Tier 1 — the narrowest majority. The mean of 1.66 is pulled upward by 9.5% at Tier 3, 2.6% at Tier 4, and 0.6% at Tier 5.
Most Madagascar sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 covers 50.3% of Madagascar's sites; Tier 2 adds 37.1%, for a combined share of 87.4%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.5%, Tier 4 for 2.6%, and Tier 5 for 0.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Madagascar's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.7% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 15.6% of Madagascar's 1,098 sites — the most of any category. SEO / search indexing follows at 13.7%, narrowly ahead of SEO audit tools at 13.5%. All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites.
One in five Madagascar sites publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.9% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
20.0% of Madagascar's sites have no robots.txt. Of all 1,098 sites, uniform per-agent rules cover 40.6% and path-level mixed rules cover 33.9%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.6%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Madagascar's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.7% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 7.9% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.3% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.3% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 6.6% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 0.7% |
Of 1,098 surveyed sites, GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 10.7%. Google-Extended follows at 8.3% and ClaudeBot at 7.3%. ChatGPT-User leads explicit allows at 3.1%.
Multiple Madagascar sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Biotech | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, and Retail each show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in these sectors names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Eleven further sectors stand at 90%.
Madagascar's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Furniture | 70% |
| Mental Health | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Warehousing | 70% |
| Biotech | 60% |
| Consulting | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
Airlines, Retail, and Travel & Tourism lead Madagascar's named-bot Allow rate at 80% each. Eight further sectors reach 70%. Figures reflect sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Three sectors share Madagascar's hardest rating at Moderate median tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality, Jewellery & Luxury, and Real Estate top Madagascar's difficulty ranking, each with a mean browser tier of 2.70 and a tier median of 3. Furniture and Medical Devices follow at mean tier 2.60, also with median tier 3.
Five sectors share Madagascar's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 70% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 70% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Airlines, Banking, Crafts, Import & Export, and Manufacturing are Madagascar's most accessible industries, each averaging a mean browser tier of 1.90. The next group of sectors sits at 2.00.