Overview
Rate Limiting is South Sudan's least-deployed secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 16.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.9% |
| JavaScript | 35.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.1% |
| TLS | 16.1% |
WAF covers 93.5% of South Sudan's 806 sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 35.5%. Rate Limiting at 9.1% is the lowest secondary barrier rate across all six tracked measures.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops South Sudan's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.5% |
| Antibot | 16.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.9% |
| JavaScript | 35.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 9.1% |
| TLS | 16.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 82% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.6% |
WAF is present on 93.5% of South Sudan sites. JavaScript is the leading secondary barrier at 35.5%, while Rate Limiting at 9.1% is the least-deployed of the six tracked barriers.
One barrier sites make up nearly four in ten South Sudan sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.5% |
| 1 barrier | 38.2% |
| 2 barriers | 32.1% |
| 3 barriers | 15.9% |
| 4 barriers | 7.3% |
| 5 barriers | 2.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
3.5% of South Sudan sites carry no access barriers. Sites deploying exactly one barrier form the largest group at 38.2%, well ahead of two-barrier sites at 32.1%. Sites with three or more account for 26.2%.
Most South Sudan sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier for South Sudan's 806 sites is Tier 1. 57.6% of sites are accessible at Tier 1, and the mean of 1.56 reflects the minority that require greater retrieval effort.
Nine in ten South Sudan sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 31.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 covers 57.6% of South Sudan sites; Tier 2 adds 31.9%. Tier 3 applies to 8.4%, while Tiers 4 and 5 combined account for only 2.1%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top South Sudan's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 10.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 16.1% of all South Sudan sites. SEO audit tools, at 13.3%, rank ahead of SEO/search indexing at 10.8% — an inversion of the usual ordering.
One in five South Sudan sites publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.5% |
39.8% of South Sudan sites use uniform per-agent rules and 35.6% use path-level mixed rules. 18.0% of all sites publish no robots.txt. Blanket Disallow rules apply to 3.5%.
GPTBot draws the most South Sudan blocks and the most explicit allows
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 3% |
| CCBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.3% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 9.6% | 1.9% |
| Bytespider | 7.3% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.3% | 2.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.2% | 0.6% |
GPTBot appears in a Disallow directive on 12.3% of all South Sudan sites — ahead of Google-Extended at 9.6%. GPTBot also leads explicit Allow entries at 3.0%.
Multiple South Sudan sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Biotech | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Telecom | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Ecology & Environment | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
Biotech, Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, Retail, and Telecom each have 100% of their sites naming at least one bot in a Disallow rule — the highest rate across all South Sudan sectors.
South Sudan's Retail sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Museums | 75% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Ecology & Environment | 70% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Consulting | 66.7% |
| Computer & Video Games | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
80.0% of Retail sites name at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — the highest rate in South Sudan. Museums follow at 75.0%, then Airlines, Ecology & Environment, Import & Export, Photography, Publishing, and Telecom each at 70.0%.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is South Sudan's only sector at a Moderate median tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 80% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 60% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate, Apparel & Fashion, and Retail all share a mean of 2.50 — the highest in South Sudan's top 15. Real Estate is the only one of the three to reach a Moderate median; Apparel & Fashion and Retail sit at Easy.
Four South Sudan sectors share the most accessible floor at mean Simple.60
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 80% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 0% | 57.1% | 0% | 14.3% | 71.4% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 100% | 50% | 50% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 70% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Automotive, Distance Learning, Gambling, and Oil & Gas each record a mean recommended tier of 1.60 — the lowest across South Sudan's bottom 15 sectors.