Overview
JavaScript is Laos's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.1% |
| JavaScript | 40.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
WAF covers 92.9% of Laos sites. JavaScript rendering leads secondary barriers at 40.2%. TLS at 18.5% and CAPTCHA at 23.1% sit above Antibot at 19.1%; Rate Limiting is lowest at 11.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and CAPTCHA are the top two secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.1% |
| JavaScript | 40.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.1% |
WAF is present on 92.9% of Laos domains. JavaScript rendering leads secondary barriers at 40.2% and CAPTCHA follows at 23.1%. TLS reaches 18.5%, Antibot 19.1%, and Rate Limiting 11.9%.
Single-barrier sites are Laos's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 31.4% |
| 2 barriers | 35% |
| 3 barriers | 16.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
Exactly two barriers is the most common configuration at 35.0%, with one-barrier sites at 31.4%. Only 4.5% of Laos domains carry no barriers. 29.1% deploy three or more.
Most Laos sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
With 53.4% of sites at Tier 1, the median recommended Zyte browser tier is 1 and the mean is 1.60 across 1,050 Laos domains — indicating a largely accessible market.
Most Laos sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 36.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1.1% |
Tier 1 covers 53.4% of Laos sites; Tier 2 adds 36.4%, bringing 89.8% of domains within the two simplest retrieval modes. Tier 3 accounts for 7.8%; Tiers 4 and 5 together reach just 2.3%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Laos's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are named in 15.4% of all Laos sites. SEO audit tools follow closely at 14.1%, ahead of SEO/search indexing at 13.1%. Monitoring bots appear in just 0.3% of sites.
Uniform rules are Laos's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply to 39.1% of all Laos sites; path-level mixed rules cover 35.0%. The 20.1% without a robots.txt file have no crawl instructions at all.
GPTBot carries the highest AI Disallow rate
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.7% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.6% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.9% | 0.9% |
| Bytespider | 7.2% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.7% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.3% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.8% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.6% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.7% of all Laos sites — the highest of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User receives the most explicit Allow directives at 2.5%.
Six sectors have every site naming at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Writing & Editing | 90.9% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Music | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Packaging | 90% |
| Performing Arts | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Consumer Electronics, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, and Retail each show 100% of their robots.txt sites naming at least one bot to restrict. Writing & Editing follows at 90.9%.
Laos's Sporting Goods sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Renewable Energy | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
| Performing Arts | 60% |
Sporting Goods tops the allow list with 90% of its robots.txt sites naming at least one bot in an Allow directive. Airlines, Non-Profit, Oil & Gas, Photography, Publishing, Renewable Energy, and Telecom follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Real Estate jointly lead the hardest-to-access sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Utility | 80% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury and Real Estate share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.50. Computer Hardware follows at 2.45. Human Resources has the highest antibot adoption in the cluster at 70%.
Seven sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 90% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Furniture, Libraries, Manufacturing, Maritime, Science, Telecom, and Travel & Tourism each record a mean tier of 1.80, the lowest in the bottom-industries group. Import & Export sits just above at 1.90.