Overview
JavaScript is Tajikistan's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 16.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 36.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 14.9% |
WAF covers 93.0% of Tajikistan's 945 sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 36.9%, ahead of CAPTCHA at 23.6%, Antibot at 16.7%, TLS at 14.9%, and Rate Limiting at 12.5%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Tajikistan's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 16.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 36.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 14.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12.6% |
WAF is deployed by 93.0% of Tajikistan's sites. JavaScript (36.9%) is the top secondary barrier. CAPTCHA (23.6%) outpaces Antibot (16.7%) by 6.9 percentage points — a wider gap than the other four secondary barriers show.
Single-barrier sites are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 35.8% |
| 2 barriers | 32.5% |
| 3 barriers | 16.6% |
| 4 barriers | 7.3% |
| 5 barriers | 3.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.3% of Tajikistan's 945 sites have no barriers. One barrier is the modal count at 35.8% of sites — higher than two barriers at 32.5%. Sites stacking three or more barriers account for 27.4% of the sample.
Most Tajikistan sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
Tajikistan's mean recommended browser tier is 1.52 with a Tier 1 median. A Tier 1 median means more than half of all 945 sites are accessible at the simplest retrieval level. Tier 3–5 accounts for 9.4%.
Six in ten sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 60% |
| 2 - Easy | 30.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 60.0% of Tajikistan's 945 sites — the highest Tier 1 share of any country in this batch. Tier 2 adds 30.6%, for a combined 90.6%. Tier 3 accounts for 7.3%; Tier 4 and 5 together 2.1%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Tajikistan's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 17.5% |
| SEO audit tools | 14% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
SEO / search indexing bots are named by 17.5% of Tajikistan's 945 sites — the highest of any bot category and the leading category in this country. AI crawlers follow at 14.1%, with SEO audit tools at 14.0%.
Path-level mixed rules are the most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 35.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 39.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.6% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.4% |
39.5% of Tajikistan's 945 sites use path-level mixed rules for the same agent — the most common posture. Uniform per-agent rules follow at 35.7%. The 18.7% without a robots.txt are the complement of the 81.3% that have one.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Tajikistan's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.6% | 1.7% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.4% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.1% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 4.8% | 2.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.3% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.3% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 4% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule by 10.6% of Tajikistan's sites. ChatGPT-User records the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.1%, ahead of PerplexityBot at 2.0% and OAI-SearchBot at 1.9%.
Five sectors have every site naming at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Chemicals | 100% |
| Civil Engineering | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Events | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
Chemicals, Civil Engineering, Design, Entertainment, and Foreign Language each show every site naming at least one bot to restrict. The second group — including Accounting & Auditing, Adult, and Airlines — stands at 90%.
Airlines and Packaging both record the highest explicit bot Allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% |
| Packaging | 90% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 71.4% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 70% |
| Food & Beverages | 70% |
| Machinery | 70% |
| Museums | 70% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Printing | 70% |
| Civil Engineering | 66.7% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
Airlines and Packaging each show 90% of their sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — the highest rates in Tajikistan. Publishing and Travel & Tourism follow at 80%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is the only sector with a Moderate median difficulty
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 60% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality records a mean recommended browser tier of 2.80 and a Tier 3 median — the only industry in Tajikistan to reach a Tier 3 median. Computer Hardware follows at mean 2.45, with Apparel & Fashion at 2.40.
Crafts, Education, and Insurance share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Accounting & Auditing | 100% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Crafts, Education, and Insurance all record mean tier 1.60 — the lowest in Tajikistan's industry ranking. All three sit at a Tier 2 median. The next group — Accounting & Auditing, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Music, Photography, and Publishing — stands at 1.70.