Overview
Albanian sites carry secondary barriers close to global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.2% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
WAF stands at 93.4%, just above the 93.1% global rate. JavaScript (42.9%) and Antibot (20.9%) lead secondary barriers, both marginally above global norms. CAPTCHA (22.0%), TLS (17.3%), and Rate Limiting (14.2%) are broadly in line. Sample: 1,093 sites.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Albania's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.2% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.8% |
WAF is present on 93.4% of Albania sites. JavaScript leads among secondary barriers at 42.9%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.0%. Antibot reaches 20.9%, with TLS at 17.3% and Rate Limiting at 14.2%.
Most Albanian sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.7% |
| 2 barriers | 35.4% |
| 3 barriers | 16.9% |
| 4 barriers | 8.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.4% of sites have no barriers. The modal count is two barriers at 35.4%. Sites with three or more account for 30.5% combined: 16.9% at three, 8.7% at four, and 4.9% at five or six.
Most Albanian sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, indicating that fewer than half of sites are reachable via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.68.
Nearly nine in ten Albanian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Tier 1 accounts for 48.2% and Tier 2 for 39.2%, a combined 87.4%. Tier 3 holds 9.3%, Tier 4 stands at 2.2%, and Tier 5 at 1.0%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Albania's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.8% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,093 Albania sites, 15.6% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools appear in 13.8%, SEO/search indexing in 12.9%. Commercial scrapers reach 8.0%, social scrapers 6.1%, and archive crawlers 4.8%.
Uniform rules are Albania's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
20.4% of sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules lead at 39.4% of all sites, with path-mixed rules at 34.0%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.8% of all sites; mixed-AI posture 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Albania's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.9% | 2.4% |
| CCBot | 8.5% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.1% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 6.9% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.7% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.6% | 1.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.7% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is named in Disallow rules on 10.9% of all 1,093 sites. CCBot is second at 8.5%. On the allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 2.7%, followed by PerplexityBot at 1.9%.
Four Albania sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Visual Art each reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Eleven further sectors stand at 90%.
Albania's Retail and Warehousing sectors lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Warehousing | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
Retail and Warehousing both reach 80% — the highest rate in Albania — for sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Seven further sectors reach 70%, and six sectors stand at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Real Estate are Albania's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury and Real Estate share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.80, followed by Hospitality at 2.70 and Equipment & Supplies and Furniture both at 2.60. A broad mid-table cluster spans 2.20–2.55.
Eight Albania sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 100% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Design, Education, Mail & Delivery, Maritime, Medical Devices, Recruitment & Staffing, Sporting Goods, and Transport & Logistics all share the lowest mean tier of 2.00. The next band ranges from 1.80 to 1.95.