Overview
JavaScript is Uzbekistan's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 20% |
| JavaScript | 42.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 16.1% |
WAF reaches 93.1%. JavaScript at 42.1% heads secondary barriers. CAPTCHA (20.0%) and Antibot (18.8%) follow. TLS and Rate Limiting remain subdued.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript leads secondary barriers by a clear margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 20% |
| JavaScript | 42.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 16.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 82% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14% |
WAF leads at 93.1%. JavaScript at 42.1% heads secondary barriers. CAPTCHA at 20.0% and Antibot at 18.8% follow. Rate Limiting (12.5%) and TLS (16.1%) are the smallest barriers.
Two-barrier sites are Uzbekistan's most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 32.1% |
| 2 barriers | 36.6% |
| 3 barriers | 15.3% |
| 4 barriers | 7.8% |
| 5 barriers | 3.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
Two concurrent barriers is the most common configuration at 36.6%. Sites with no barriers account for 4.2%. About 27.2% of sites carry three or more barriers simultaneously.
Most Uzbekistan sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Browser-mode median sits at Tier 2, indicating over 50% of sites require more than basic HTTP retrieval. The mean of 1.66 reflects significant Tier 2 demand alongside a near-even Tier 1 base.
Most Uzbekistan sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 49.1% of sites and Tier 2 covers 39.2%. Tier 3 adds 9.2%. The combined Tiers 4–5 share of 2.3% is consistent with markets of similar complexity.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Uzbekistan's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category, named in rules on 16.1% of all sites. SEO/search indexing follows at 14.3%, ranking ahead of SEO audit tools (12.7%). Archive crawlers appear on 4.6% of sites.
Uniform rules are Uzbekistan's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply on 40.8% of all sites. Path-level mixed rules cover 35.0% — a comparatively high share. No robots.txt is present on 18.0% of sites. Blanket Disallow affects 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Uzbekistan's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.3% | 2.7% |
| CCBot | 8.7% | 1.2% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.1% | 1.5% |
| Google-Extended | 8.3% | 1.8% |
| Bytespider | 7.3% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.3% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.8% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.3% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is blocked on 11.3% of all sites, the highest rate of any named AI agent. CCBot (8.7%) and Google-Extended (8.3%) follow. ChatGPT-User has the highest Allow rate at 2.8%.
Crafts, Design, Entertainment, and Political Orgs each name bots on every site
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Crafts | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Political Orgs | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Oil & Gas | 90% |
Every sampled site in Crafts, Design, Entertainment, and Political Orgs names at least one bot to restrict — a 100% rate for each. Adult, Airlines, Automotive, and ten other sectors follow at 90%.
Airlines, Automotive, and Veterinary lead explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Automotive | 80% |
| Veterinary | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Public Policy | 70% |
| Public Relations | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Renewable Energy | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Political Orgs | 66.7% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
Airlines, Automotive, and Veterinary each show 80% of sampled sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule — the highest rate in Uzbekistan. Photography, Public Policy, and several others follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 10% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate records a mean recommended tier of 2.80 with a median of Tier 3. Jewellery & Luxury (2.70) and Computer Hardware (2.65) follow, both also with Tier 3 medians. Five of the top fifteen show median Tier 3.
Banking is the most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Banking records the lowest mean recommended tier in the bottom group at 1.80. Airlines (1.80) ties at the floor. The bottom-15 group spans from 2.00 to 1.80, with all sectors at median Tier 2.