Overview
CAPTCHA and Antibot are virtually tied as Tunisia's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.8% |
| Antibot | 21.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.7% |
| JavaScript | 42% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
WAF reaches 93.8% of Tunisia's 1,100 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondaries at 42.0%. Unusually, CAPTCHA (21.7%) and Antibot (21.5%) are separated by just 0.2 percentage points.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Tunisia's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.8% |
| Antibot | 21.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.7% |
| JavaScript | 42% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12.9% |
WAF covers 93.8% of Tunisia's surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondaries at 42.0%. CAPTCHA (21.7%) and Antibot (21.5%) are nearly tied, while Rate Limiting (13.0%) rounds out the secondary stack.
Two-barrier sites are Tunisia's most common configuration at over a third
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.1% |
| 1 barrier | 29.5% |
| 2 barriers | 36.1% |
| 3 barriers | 17.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
The most common barrier count among Tunisia's 1,100 sites is two, at 36.1%. One-barrier sites follow at 29.5%. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.4%; 4.1% present no detectable barrier.
Most Tunisia sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Tier 1 accounts for 50.1% of Tunisia's 1,100 sites — just above the median boundary. The mean of 1.64 reflects the 11.6% of sites at Tier 3 or above, including a Tier 3 share of 9.4%.
Nearly nine in ten Tunisia sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 covers 50.1% of Tunisia's sites; Tier 2 adds 38.4%, for a combined 88.5%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.4% — a notable share — with Tier 4 at 1.8% and Tier 5 at 0.4%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Tunisia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 15.0% of Tunisia's 1,100 sites. SEO / search indexing and SEO audit tools are exactly tied at 12.9% each — an even split across the two largest non-AI bot categories.
Uniform rules lead Tunisia's robots.txt postures at over four in ten sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
18.8% of Tunisia's sites carry no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules is the leading posture at 41.6% of all sites; path-level mixed rules account for 34.4%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Tunisia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.8% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 7.9% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.5% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 6.5% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.5% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.5% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.2% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 0.7% |
Of Tunisia's 1,100 sites, GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 10.8%. Google-Extended is close behind at 8.0%. ChatGPT-User holds the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.5%.
Multiple Tunisia sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
Six Tunisia sectors reach a 100% named-bot Disallow rate: Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Plastics & Polymers, Retail, and Warehousing. The last two are unusual sector placements at the 100% mark.
Tunisia's Warehousing sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Warehousing | 90% |
| Automotive | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Facilities Services | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
Warehousing sites in Tunisia show a 90% named-bot Allow rate — the highest of any sector and a distinctive result for a logistics category. Automotive follows at 80%; eight sectors share a 70% Allow rate.
Industry Patterns
Four Tunisia sectors reach a Moderate median access tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 60% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads with a mean of 2.90 and median of 3; Real Estate (2.80) and Hospitality (2.50) follow. Furniture and Restaurants both share a mean of 2.40 — only Furniture reaches a Moderate median. Four sectors at median Moderate is notable within this ranking.
Adult sites are Tunisia's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
The lowest mean browser tier in Tunisia's bottom-group ranking is 1.80, held by Adult. The rest of the bottom 15 cluster between 1.90 and 2.00, leaving Adult as the clear floor of accessibility in this set.