Overview
JavaScript is Turkey's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 43.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF covers 93.2% of sites. JavaScript at 43.7% is the strongest secondary barrier, with CAPTCHA (23.0%) and Antibot (20.8%) forming a second tier. Rate Limiting (13.0%) and TLS (17.5%) are the smallest barriers.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Turkey's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 43.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
WAF leads at 93.2%. JavaScript at 43.7% heads the secondary barriers. Antibot at 20.8% closely tracks its global counterpart. CAPTCHA, TLS, and Rate Limiting each remain under 24%.
Two-barrier sites are Turkey's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.8% |
| 2 barriers | 34.8% |
| 3 barriers | 17.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
Two concurrent barriers is the most common configuration at 34.8%. Sites with no barriers account for 4.4%. About 30.5% of sites deploy three or more barriers, giving Turkey a relatively stacked profile.
Most Turkey sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Browser-mode median sits at Tier 1. At a mean of 1.63, Turkey sits above many markets — 38.0% of sites require Tier 2, and a combined 11% need Tiers 3–5.
Most Turkey sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 51.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 38% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 accounts for 51.1% of sites and Tier 2 for 38.0% — nearly the same share. Tier 3 adds 8.4%. Advanced tiers (4 and 5) together cover 2.5% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Turkey's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers appear in rules on 15.2% of all sites. Unusually, SEO audit tools (13.1%) are cited more often than SEO/search indexing bots (12.3%). Commercial scrapers follow at 8.6%.
Uniform rules are Turkey's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply on 42.6% of all sites. Path-level mixed rules cover 33.3%. No robots.txt is present on 19.4% of sites. Blanket Disallow affects 2.8%.
GPTBot receives the most Disallow rules
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 7.5% | 1.1% |
| Bytespider | 7.1% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.3% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.4% | 1.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.2% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is blocked on 11.0% of all sites, the highest rate of any AI agent. CCBot (8.8%) and ClaudeBot (8.4%) follow. ChatGPT-User has the highest Allow rate at 2.2%.
Five sectors have every site naming at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Civil Engineering, Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Visual Art each show 100%: every sampled site names at least one bot to restrict. Adult, Beauty & Cosmetics, Comics & Animation, and several others follow at 90%.
Turkey's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Farms & Ranches | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Public Relations | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
Airlines, Automotive, Construction, Photography, Plastics & Polymers, Publishing, Science, and Travel & Tourism each show 70% of sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule — the highest rate in Turkey.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 20% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 80% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records a mean recommended tier of 2.90 with a median of Tier 3. Hospitality (2.70) and Real Estate (2.60) follow. The cluster from Computer Hardware downward has median Tier 2.
Most accessible sectors cluster tightly at the floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Airlines, Customer Services, and Import & Export share the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.80. The full bottom-15 group spans a narrow range from 2.00 to 1.80 — a comparatively flat difficulty floor.