Overview
JavaScript is Armenia's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.9% |
| JavaScript | 43.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.6% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
WAF covers 93.6% of 1,096 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 43.1%. CAPTCHA (22.9%) and Antibot (21.9%) are within 1 percentage point of each other — the tightest pairing in the secondary barrier set.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Armenia's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.9% |
| JavaScript | 43.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.6% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
| Has robots.txt | 80% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.7% |
WAF leads at 93.6% across all 1,096 surveyed sites. JavaScript (43.1%) is the clear secondary leader, 20 points ahead of CAPTCHA (22.9%). TLS (18.6%) and Rate Limiting (13.6%) are the least-deployed of the six barriers.
Two-barrier sites are Armenia's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.1% |
| 2 barriers | 35% |
| 3 barriers | 18% |
| 4 barriers | 9.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.0% of sites present no detectable barriers. Two-barrier sites are the modal configuration at 35.0%. Sites deploying three or more barriers account for 31.9% of the surveyed set.
Most Armenia sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Mean recommended tier is 1.71, median is 2. Tier 1 (Simple) covers 46.6% of sites — below the majority threshold. The remaining 53.4% require at least Easy-level browser-based retrieval.
More than eight in ten sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 46.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 (Simple) covers 46.6% of sites; Tier 2 (Easy) adds 39.8%, for a combined 86.4%. Tier 3 (Moderate) accounts for 10.2%, Tier 4 for 2.6%, and Tier 5 for 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Armenia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt at 15.3% of all 1,096 surveyed sites. SEO audit tools (13.7%) and SEO / search indexing (13.1%) are within 0.6 points of each other in second and third position.
One in five Armenia sites publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.1% |
20.0% of sites have no robots.txt. Among those that do, uniform per-agent rules are most common at 40.1% of all sites. Path-level mixed rules apply to 34.6%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 3.1%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Armenia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.8% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 7.1% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.7% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.6% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.9% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 11.0% of all surveyed sites — the highest of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User has the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.6%, followed by OAI-SearchBot at 2.3%.
Design, Entertainment, and Newspapers name bots on every site
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Every site in Design, Entertainment, and Newspapers names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Twelve additional sectors sit at 90%, placing nearly the entire top-15 list above a 90% named-bot restriction rate.
Airlines, Automotive, and Publishing lead explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Automotive | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Veterinary | 70% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Public Relations | 60% |
| Public Safety | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Recreational Facilities | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
Airlines, Automotive, and Publishing each show an 80% explicit bot Allow rate — the highest in the country. Market Research, Photography, Science, and Veterinary follow at 70%, forming a broad second cluster.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is the hardest sector at near-Moderate mean difficulty
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 90% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate averages a mean recommended tier of 2.80 with a median of 3 — the highest values of any sector. Jewellery & Luxury follows at mean 2.70, also with a median of 3. Industries ranked by mean recommended browser tier.
Adult, Construction, and Import & Export share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
The lowest mean recommended tier is 1.90, reached by Adult, Construction, and Import & Export. These three sectors sit at the accessible end of the surveyed range. Industries are ranked by mean recommended browser-based retrieval tier.