Overview
JavaScript is Senegal's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.5% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 41.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
WAF reaches 92.5% of Senegal's 1,053 sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 41.5%, followed by CAPTCHA at 24.5%. Rate Limiting is the lowest secondary barrier at 11.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Senegal's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.5% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.5% |
| JavaScript | 41.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 78.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12.7% |
WAF is present on 92.5% of Senegal sites. JavaScript renders 41.5% inaccessible to non-rendering crawlers. CAPTCHA applies to 24.5%, while Rate Limiting at 11.9% is the least-deployed secondary barrier.
Two-barrier sites are Senegal's largest single group
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 31.1% |
| 2 barriers | 33.1% |
| 3 barriers | 18.4% |
| 4 barriers | 7.9% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
4.9% of Senegal sites carry no access barriers. Sites with exactly two barriers form the largest group at 33.1%, narrowly ahead of one-barrier sites at 31.1%. Sites with three or more barriers total 30.9%.
Most Senegal sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier for Senegal's 1,053 sites is Tier 1, meaning the majority are accessible via HTTP alone. The mean of 1.64 indicates a meaningful minority requiring browser-level retrieval.
Most Senegal sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 covers 52.0% of Senegal sites and Tier 2 a further 35.5%. Tier 3 applies to 9.7% — more than one site in ten — while Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 2.8%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Senegal's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13% |
| SEO audit tools | 13% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 14.6% of all Senegal sites. SEO/search indexing and SEO audit tools each reach 13.0% — the only two categories to share an equal mention rate.
More than one in five Senegal sites publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 1.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
40.3% of Senegal sites use uniform per-agent rules and 33.1% use path-level mixed rules. 21.6% of all sites have no robots.txt file at all — the implicit largest uncategorised segment.
GPTBot draws the most Disallow rules in Senegal
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.2% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 7.7% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 7% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 7.5% | 0.9% |
| Bytespider | 6.4% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.7% | 2.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.3% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 3.6% | 0.1% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.3% | 1.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.9% | 0.8% |
GPTBot appears in a Disallow directive on 10.2% of all Senegal sites. ChatGPT-User receives the most explicit Allow entries, at 2.3% of sites.
Multiple Senegal sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Printing | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Warehousing each have 100% of their sites naming at least one bot in a Disallow rule — the highest rate in Senegal.
Market Research and Publishing top Senegal's explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Writing & Editing | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Biotech | 60% |
| Comics & Animation | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Healthcare | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Mental Health | 60% |
Market Research and Publishing each have 80.0% of their sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — the highest rates among all Senegal sectors.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Senegal's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 40% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records a mean recommended tier of 2.80 and a median of Tier 3 — the highest-difficulty position in Senegal's top-15. Furniture follows at 2.70, also with a Tier 3 median.
Six Senegal sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 70% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Biotech, Computers & Electronics, Events, Import & Export, Libraries, and Music all record a mean tier of 1.80 — the lowest value across Senegal's bottom 15 sectors.