Overview
JavaScript is Mozambique's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 20.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 39.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
WAF covers 92.9% of Mozambique sites. JavaScript (39.4%) leads all secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (24.5%) and Antibot (20.4%). TLS (18.4%) and Rate Limiting (11.6%) trail.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Mozambique's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 20.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 39.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
JavaScript (39.4%) is the leading secondary barrier. CAPTCHA (24.5%) and Antibot (20.4%) follow. TLS (18.4%) sits fourth among secondaries, ahead of Rate Limiting (11.6%).
Two-barrier sites are Mozambique's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 30.8% |
| 2 barriers | 33.8% |
| 3 barriers | 19.4% |
| 4 barriers | 8.3% |
| 5 barriers | 3.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
33.8% of Mozambique sites deploy exactly two barriers — the most common configuration. A further 30.8% carry just one, while 31.2% of sites stack three or more barriers simultaneously.
Most Mozambique sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A median browser difficulty of 1 indicates the majority of Mozambique sites are accessible at Tier 1. A mean of 1.65 reflects a consistent segment of sites demanding higher-tier retrieval.
Most Mozambique sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 36.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
50.7% of sites resolve at Tier 1, and 36.8% fall at Tier 2, together accounting for 87.5% of the domain set. Only 3.0% reach the most demanding tiers (4–5).
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Mozambique's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 10.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers lead at 14.7% of all sites. Unusually, SEO audit tools (12.5%) are mentioned more often than SEO search indexing bots (10.8%) — the widest gap between these two categories in this dataset.
Uniform rules are Mozambique's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
40.9% of sites apply uniform per-agent rules with no path mixing. Blanket Disallow: / accounts for just 2.4% of all sites — the lowest rate for this posture in this dataset.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Mozambique's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.1% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.4% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 6.9% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.3% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.8% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.3% | 1.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.3% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is Disallowed on 11.1% of all Mozambique sites. ChatGPT-User accumulates the most explicit Allow entries at 2.2%, followed by PerplexityBot at 2.0%.
Multiple Mozambique sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Public Safety | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Training & Cert. | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Newspapers, Public Safety, Retail, and Training & Certification all show 100% named-bot block rates — every site in each sector names at least one crawler to restrict.
Mozambique's Facilities Services sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Facilities Services | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
Facilities Services explicitly allows named bots on 80% of its sites — the highest rate in Mozambique. Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, and Textiles & Nonwovens follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Mozambique's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 50% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 100% | 40% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 90% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 60% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury posts the highest mean browser difficulty score (2.80) with a median of Tier 3. Notably, 60% TLS adoption — the highest single-barrier rate in this sector across the country — drives much of this complexity.
TV & Film sites are Mozambique's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 70% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 70% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
TV & Film records a mean browser difficulty of 1.90 — the lowest in the accessible-end sector group. Despite 100% WAF and 50% JavaScript rendering, secondary barriers remain moderate at 40% Antibot and 30% Rate Limiting.