Overview
JavaScript is Niger's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 40.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.1% |
WAF is present on 93.1% of Niger sites. JavaScript rendering (40.2%) leads secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (23.8%), while Antibot (19.2%) is the lightest human-adversarial barrier.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Niger's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 40.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 17.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
JavaScript rendering (40.2%) is the dominant secondary barrier. CAPTCHA (23.8%) places ahead of Antibot (19.2%), while Rate Limiting (11.6%) is the most lightly deployed secondary barrier in Niger.
Two barriers is Niger's most common configuration with the highest two-barrier share
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.7% |
| 1 barrier | 31.9% |
| 2 barriers | 36.1% |
| 3 barriers | 16.6% |
| 4 barriers | 7.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
36.1% of Niger sites carry exactly two barriers — the highest two-barrier concentration in this dataset. Single-barrier sites (31.9%) follow, while 3.7% of sites present no barrier at all.
Most Niger sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median browser difficulty is 1, and a mean of 1.59 confirms most Niger sites cluster toward Tier 1. Over 56% of sites are accessible at the lowest retrieval tier.
More than half of Niger sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 56.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 32.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
56.4% of sites are accessible at Tier 1 with a browser. A further 32.8% fall at Tier 2. Only 3.4% reach the most demanding tiers (4–5), the lowest high-difficulty share in this dataset.
robots.txt
Social content bots outrank commercial scrapers in Niger's robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers lead at 15.7%. SEO audit tools (13.9%) edge SEO search bots (13.3%) for second place. Unusually, Social and content scrapers (8.2%) outrank Commercial scrapers (6.8%) in Niger's robots.txt landscape.
Uniform and path-level rules are nearly equal in Niger's posture split
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 37.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.7% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules (37.4%) and path-level mixed rules (36.1%) are separated by only 1.3 percentage points — the narrowest gap between these two postures in this dataset. Blanket Disallow: / accounts for 3.6% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Niger's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.3% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 7.8% | 0.4% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 0.6% |
| Google-Extended | 9.3% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 8.2% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.7% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.2% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.2% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.4% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is blocked on 10.3% of all Niger sites. Applebot-Extended is the only AI agent with zero explicit Allow entries across the entire country's dataset. ChatGPT-User receives the highest allow rate at 2.7%.
Multiple Niger sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Sporting Goods | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Renewable Energy | 90% |
| Automotive | 80% |
Design, Ecology & Environment, Jewellery & Luxury, Retail, and Sporting Goods all show 100% named-bot block rates — every site in each sector explicitly names at least one crawler to restrict.
Niger's Ecology & Environment sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ecology & Environment | 90% |
| Renewable Energy | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 71.4% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Foreign Language | 62.5% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 60% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
Ecology & Environment explicitly allows named bots on 90% of its sites — the highest rate in Niger — while simultaneously holding a 100% block rate. Renewable Energy (80%) and Retail (80%) follow in the allowlisting rankings.
Industry Patterns
Automotive leads Niger's most complex sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 90% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Niger is unusual in that no sector reaches a median browser difficulty of Tier 3. Automotive and Retail jointly post the highest mean score at 2.50, with 100% WAF and 70% JavaScript rendering in Retail.
Travel & Tourism sites are Niger's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 70% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 80% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 80% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 90% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Travel & Tourism records the lowest mean browser difficulty (1.70) in Niger. Its 90% WAF and 60% JavaScript adoption are offset by the absence of CAPTCHA and a modest 20% Rate Limiting rate.