Overview
CAPTCHA is Austria's most distinctive secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24% |
| JavaScript | 40.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 18% |
WAF reaches 93.6%, fractionally above the 93.1% global average. CAPTCHA (24.0%) is the secondary barrier most above its global norm (23.1%). JavaScript (40.5%), Antibot (19.6%), TLS (18.0%), and Rate Limiting (11.6%) are all near global levels. Sample: 1,110 sites.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Austria's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24% |
| JavaScript | 40.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.6% |
| TLS | 18% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.1% |
WAF is deployed on 93.6% of Austrian sites. Among secondary barriers, CAPTCHA leads at 24.0%, followed by JavaScript at 40.5%. Antibot stands at 19.6%, TLS at 18.0%, and Rate Limiting at 11.6%.
Most Austrian sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 29.8% |
| 2 barriers | 36.3% |
| 3 barriers | 17.8% |
| 4 barriers | 7.9% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.2% of sites carry no barriers. The modal count is two, covering 36.3% of sites. Sites with three or more barriers represent 29.6% combined: 17.8% at three, 7.9% at four, and 3.9% at five or six.
Most Austrian sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 1, meaning a majority of sites are reachable without browser rendering. The mean tier is 1.62.
Nearly nine in ten Austrian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 51.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 holds 51.4% of sites and Tier 2 holds 37.8%, a combined 89.2%. Tier 3 stands at 8.5%, Tier 4 at 1.6%, and Tier 5 at 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Austria's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 14% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,110 Austria sites, 15.7% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools appear in 14.0%, SEO/search indexing in 13.1%. Commercial scrapers reach 8.7%, archive crawlers 5.0%, and social scrapers 6.5%.
Uniform rules are Austria's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.6% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
17.4% of sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules are most common at 44.1% of all sites, followed by path-mixed rules at 33.1%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.8% of all sites; mixed-AI posture to 2.1%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Austria's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.1% | 1.7% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.5% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 7.8% | 1.1% |
| Bytespider | 7.8% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 2.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.5% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.1% | 0.5% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 11.1% of all 1,110 Austria sites. CCBot is second at 8.8%. On the allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 2.3%, followed by PerplexityBot at 1.7%.
Six Austrian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, and Retail each reach 100% — every site names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Nine further sectors stand at 90%.
Austria's Automotive sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% |
| Facilities Services | 70% |
| Food & Beverages | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Warehousing | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Healthcare | 60% |
Automotive reaches 80% — the highest rate in Austria — for sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Ten further sectors stand at 70%, and three sectors at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Hospitality are Austria's hardest sectors to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 70% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury posts the highest mean recommended tier at 2.80, followed by Hospitality and Real Estate both at 2.70. Human Resources reaches 2.50. A broad mid-table cluster spans 2.00–2.30.
Three Austrian sectors share the most accessible 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 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Mail & Delivery, Medical Devices, and Transport & Logistics all share the lowest mean tier of 2.00. Food & Beverages stands at 1.85, and eleven sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.90.