Overview
JavaScript is Turkmenistan's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.7% |
| Antibot | 14.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.1% |
| JavaScript | 38.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
WAF reaches 93.7% of the 606 sampled sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript at 38.9% outpaces CAPTCHA (22.1%), TLS (16.7%), Antibot (14.9%), and Rate Limiting (12.5%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is the clear secondary barrier leader
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.7% |
| Antibot | 14.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.1% |
| JavaScript | 38.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.2% |
WAF leads at 93.7%. JavaScript at 38.9% is the strongest secondary barrier, more than 16 points ahead of CAPTCHA. Antibot adoption at 14.9% sits below Rate Limiting globally.
Single-barrier sites are Turkmenistan's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 34.7% |
| 2 barriers | 31.7% |
| 3 barriers | 18.3% |
| 4 barriers | 8.1% |
| 5 barriers | 2.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
One barrier is the modal stack, covering 34.7% of sites. Sites with no barriers at all account for 4.6%. Nearly 29% of sites deploy three or more barriers simultaneously.
Most Turkmenistan sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
Browser-mode median sits at Tier 1, meaning over half the sampled sites are retrievable with basic HTTP requests. The mean of 1.53 reflects a minority of harder sites pulling the average up.
Nearly nine in ten sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 59.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 30.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 accounts for 59.6% of sites and Tier 2 for 30.5%, giving 90.1% combined at the lower end. Tiers 3–5 collectively cover 9.9%, with Tier 5 at just 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 3.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are the most-cited category, appearing in rules on 16.3% of all 606 sites. SEO/search indexing follows at 14.9%, then SEO audit tools at 12.7%. Archive and research crawlers are named by just 3.6% of sites.
Uniform rules are Turkmenistan's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 38.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 1.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules (38.3%) and path-level mixed rules (36.8%) together account for 75.1% of all sites. No robots.txt is present on 19.6% of sites. Blanket Disallow covers 3.6%.
GPTBot and Google-Extended draw the most Disallow rules
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.4% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 8.4% | 0.5% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.6% | 0.7% |
| Google-Extended | 9.6% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 8.4% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 4% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 1.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.4% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 1.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is blocked on 10.4% of all sites — the highest of any named AI agent. Google-Extended follows at 9.6%. Explicit Allow rules remain rare for all agents, peaking at 2.0% for PerplexityBot.
Four sectors have every site naming at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Adult | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Insurance | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Retail | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 87.5% |
| Events | 83.3% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 80% |
Adult, Consumer Electronics, Design, and Insurance all show 100%: every sampled site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict. Computer & Video Games, General, Mass Media, and others follow at 90%.
Photography and Retail lead on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Photography | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Sporting Goods | 71.4% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 62.5% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 60% |
| Legal | 60% |
| Metals & Mining | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
| Banking | 50% |
Photography and Retail sites are most likely to grant named bots explicit access, with 80% of sampled sites in each naming at least one bot in an Allow rule. Sporting Goods follows at 71.4%.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 70% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 80% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware records the highest mean recommended tier at 2.85, with a median of Tier 3. Retail (2.60) and Automotive (2.40) follow. Note: each industry cell reflects 10 sampled sites given the 606-site national total.
Multiple sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Publishing | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Entertainment | 100% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
Travel & Tourism records the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.45. Six sectors cluster at 1.50: Distance Learning, General, Import & Export, Mass Media, Music, and Online Services. Publishing (1.80) and Finance (1.70) sit just above.