Overview
JavaScript is Togo's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 17.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.5% |
| JavaScript | 38.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.4% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
WAF reaches 93.0% of Togo's 1,007 surveyed sites. JavaScript (38.6%) leads secondary barriers; CAPTCHA (22.5%) outranks Antibot (17.4%), with Rate Limiting at 10.4% among the lowest in the secondary stack.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Togo's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 17.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.5% |
| JavaScript | 38.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.4% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13% |
WAF is present across 93.0% of Togo's sites. JavaScript leads secondaries at 38.6%. Rate Limiting (10.4%) and TLS (16.5%) occupy the lower end of the secondary stack.
One-barrier and two-barrier sites are nearly equal in Togo
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 34.5% |
| 2 barriers | 34.1% |
| 3 barriers | 15.9% |
| 4 barriers | 7.3% |
| 5 barriers | 3.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
One-barrier sites account for 34.5% of Togo's 1,007 surveyed sites; two-barrier sites sit at 34.1% — a gap of just 0.4 percentage points. Sites with three or more barriers make up 26.9%; 4.6% carry none.
Most Togo sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A browser median of 1 reflects that more than half — 52.4% — of Togo's 1,007 sites are accessible at Tier 1. The mean of 1.61 is drawn upward by the 10.4% of sites requiring Tier 3 or above.
More than half of Togo sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 52.4% of Togo's sites; Tier 2 adds 37.1%, bringing the combined share to 89.5%. Tier 3 accounts for 8.0% — the highest of this country set — with Tier 4 at 1.7% and Tier 5 at 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Togo's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.5% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named by 16.0% of Togo's 1,007 sites; SEO / search indexing by 14.5%; SEO audit tools by 14.1% — a spread of just 1.9 points across all three leading categories.
Uniform rules lead Togo's robots.txt postures
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
19.7% of Togo's sites carry no robots.txt. Of those that publish one, 39.9% of all sites follow uniform per-agent rules and 35.7% use path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / and Mixed AI posture each account for 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Togo's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.5% | 2.6% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.8% | 1.4% |
| Google-Extended | 7.3% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.7% | 3% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.8% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.5% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.7% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.4% | 0.9% |
Of Togo's 1,007 sites, GPTBot is blocked by 10.5% and explicitly allowed by 2.6%. ChatGPT-User holds the highest Allow rate at 3.0%, ahead of PerplexityBot at 2.4%.
Multiple Togo sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Graphic Design | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Market Research | 90% |
Apparel & Fashion, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail each see every sampled site name at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Nine further sectors in this ranking stand at 90%.
Togo's Market Research sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Mental Health | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
Market Research is the sector with the highest named-bot Allow rate in Togo at 80% of sampled sites. Ten sectors follow at 70% each, including Airlines, Automotive, Publishing, and Retail.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Togo's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 80% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury averages the highest mean browser tier in Togo, with a Moderate median — the hardest in the ranking by both measures. Computer Hardware and Real Estate also reach a Moderate median; all three share their mean tier with Retail.
Music leads Togo's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reference | 90% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Security | 70% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Metals & Mining | 100% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Music holds the lowest mean browser tier in Togo's bottom-group ranking at 1.80. Five sectors cluster at that floor, with the full list spanning a narrow range from 2.00 to 1.80.