Overview
CAPTCHA ranks second among Eswatini's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 21.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.5% |
| JavaScript | 36.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17% |
WAF reaches 94.5% of Eswatini's 869 surveyed sites. Among secondary barriers, CAPTCHA (28.5%) outranks Antibot (21.1%) — a distinction from the more typical pattern where Antibot and CAPTCHA run closer together.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Eswatini's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 21.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.5% |
| JavaScript | 36.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.1% |
WAF is deployed by 94.5% of Eswatini sites. JavaScript (36.6%) heads the secondary barrier tier; CAPTCHA (28.5%) ranks above Antibot (21.1%), with Rate Limiting (13.3%) and TLS (17.0%) rounding out the stack.
Two-barrier sites are the largest single group in Eswatini
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.1% |
| 1 barrier | 32.6% |
| 2 barriers | 34.1% |
| 3 barriers | 16.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8.4% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.6% |
34.1% of Eswatini sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count — while 32.6% carry one. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.3%; only 3.1% present no detectable barrier.
Most Eswatini sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
A median of 1 indicates more than half of Eswatini's 869 sites are accessible at Tier 1 with browser rendering. The mean sits at 1.54, pulled up by the 10.0% of sites at Tier 3 or above.
Nearly six in ten Eswatini sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 58.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 31.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 accounts for 58.2% of Eswatini's sites; Tier 2 for 31.8% — a combined 90.0%. Tier 3 takes 7.9%, Tier 4 takes 1.6%, and Tier 5 accounts for 0.5% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Eswatini's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 16.9% of Eswatini's 869 sites. SEO / search indexing (14.2%) and SEO audit tools (13.9%) follow — a gap of just 0.3 percentage points between them.
Uniform and path-mixed rules are nearly equal in Eswatini
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.6% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.1% |
39.1% of Eswatini's sites use uniform per-agent rules; 36.0% use path-level mixed rules — a gap of just three percentage points. The remaining 18.9% carry no robots.txt at all.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Eswatini's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.2% | 2.6% |
| CCBot | 9.4% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.7% | 1.6% |
| Google-Extended | 9.6% | 2.1% |
| Bytespider | 8.5% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.8% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.4% | 3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.8% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.8% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 6.1% | 1.5% |
Of Eswatini's 869 sites, GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 12.2% and in an explicit Allow by 2.6%. PerplexityBot holds the highest Allow rate at 3.0%.
Multiple Eswatini sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Packaging | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Foreign Language, Packaging, Printing, and Retail each show that every sampled site names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. A further nine sectors stand at 90%.
Eswatini's Airlines sites sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% |
| Sporting Goods | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Veterinary | 80% |
| Consulting | 70% |
| Machinery | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
Airlines sites in Eswatini are the most likely to name a bot in an Allow rule — 90% do so. Sporting Goods, Travel & Tourism, and Veterinary follow at 80% each.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Eswatini's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 50% | 0% | 33.3% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Retail averages a mean browser tier of 2.50 across Eswatini's surveyed sites — the highest of any industry in this ranking. Human Resources, Recruitment & Staffing, Computer Hardware, and Sporting Goods all share the next position at 2.30.
Distance Learning and Education share Eswatini's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Profit | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 87.5% | 37.5% | 12.5% | 25% | 0% | 12.5% | 75% | 37.5% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 90% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
The lowest mean browser tier in Eswatini's industry ranking is 1.60, shared by Distance Learning and Education. Both carry WAF rates of 100% while averaging well under Tier 2 overall.