Overview
JavaScript is the most-deployed secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 43.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.4% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
Georgia's JavaScript rate of 43.2% is the highest of the five countries in this set. CAPTCHA (22.2%) and Antibot (20.8%) follow, with TLS (17.2%) at its lowest here among the five.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript leads all secondary barriers by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 43.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.4% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.6% |
JavaScript exceeds CAPTCHA (22.2%) by more than twenty percentage points. Rate Limiting (13.4%) is Georgia's least-used named secondary barrier, present on roughly one in seven sites.
Two-barrier sites are Georgia's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.7% |
| 1 barrier | 29.6% |
| 2 barriers | 35.1% |
| 3 barriers | 17.3% |
| 4 barriers | 8.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
35.1% of Georgia sites carry exactly two barriers — the highest two-barrier share among the five countries. One-barrier sites follow at 29.6%. Only 0.5% deploy all six simultaneously.
Most Georgia sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median site requires Standard browser access. Tier 4 (2.6%) is the highest T4 share among these five countries, indicating a small but elevated hard-access tail.
Complex sites are more prevalent here than in most Asian markets
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 covers 47.5% of Georgia sites; Tier 2 adds 39.7%. The combined 9.7% at Tier 3 and 2.6% at Tier 4 mark Georgia's high-complexity tail as proportionally larger than its peers here.
robots.txt
SEO/search bots rank second in named bot category mentions
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers lead at 15.1%, but SEO/search indexing bots (13.1%) rank ahead of SEO audit tools (12.3%) in Georgia — the only country in this set with that ordering. Monitoring bots appear on just 0.5% of sites.
Path-level mixed rules run close behind uniform rules in posture distribution
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3% |
39.2% of Georgia sites use uniform per-agent rules; 35.2% use path-level mixing. Georgia's blanket Disallow: / rate (3.0%) is the highest of the five countries in this cluster.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Georgia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 8.2% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.3% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.4% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 6.7% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.8% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 0.9% |
GPTBot heads Georgia's Disallow list at 11.0%, followed by Google-Extended at 8.4% and ClaudeBot at 8.3%. ChatGPT-User holds the broadest Allow grant at 2.6%.
Most Georgia sectors name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Public Safety | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Newspapers and Visual Art each record 100% named-bot Disallow rates in Georgia — a distinctive inclusion of Medical Devices at the top.
Eleven sectors share the top explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
Airlines, Automotive, Investment, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, Sports, Telecom, Textiles & Nonwovens and Travel & Tourism all reach 70% explicit Allow. Four further sectors follow at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is the hardest sector at Moderate median 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% | 50% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 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 |
| Hospitality | 80% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate leads with a tier mean of 2.80. Jewellery & Luxury (2.70) is the only other sector with a Tier 3 median.
Textiles & Nonwovens is the most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 60% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Textiles & Nonwovens sits at the foot of Georgia's industry ranking with a tier mean of 1.90. Zero Rate Limiting coverage and low Antibot (10%) keep access complexity at a minimum.