Overview
Bosnia-Herzegovina sites carry barriers close to global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
WAF stands at 93.0%, virtually at the 93.1% global rate. JavaScript (41.7%) and CAPTCHA (22.2%) lead secondary barriers. Antibot (19.7%), TLS (17.4%), and Rate Limiting (13.3%) are all within one percentage point of global averages. Sample: 1,089 sites.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Bosnia-Herzegovina's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.7% |
WAF is present on 93.0% of Bosnia-Herzegovina sites. JavaScript leads among secondary barriers at 41.7%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.2%. Antibot stands at 19.7%, TLS at 17.4%, and Rate Limiting at 13.3%.
Most Bosnia-Herzegovina sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 31.2% |
| 2 barriers | 33.5% |
| 3 barriers | 18.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.7% |
| 5 barriers | 3.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
4.3% of sites carry no barriers. The modal count is two at 33.5%. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.9% combined: 18.5% at three, 8.7% at four, and 3.7% at five or six.
Exactly half of Bosnia-Herzegovina sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 1, meaning at least 50% of sites are reachable via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.64.
Nearly nine in ten Bosnia-Herzegovina sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 accounts for 50.0% of sites and Tier 2 for 38.3%, a combined 88.3%. Tier 3 holds 9.1%, Tier 4 stands at 2.2%, and Tier 5 at 0.4%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Bosnia-Herzegovina's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,089 Bosnia-Herzegovina sites, 15.6% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools appear in 13.6%, SEO/search indexing in 12.0%. Commercial scrapers reach 8.9%, social scrapers 6.1%, and archive crawlers 4.7%.
Uniform rules are Bosnia-Herzegovina's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43.5% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.7% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.3% |
19.7% of sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules lead at 43.5% of all sites, with path-mixed rules at 31.8%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.3% of all sites; mixed-AI posture to 2.2%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Bosnia-Herzegovina's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.8% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 7.7% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 7.2% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.8% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 0.5% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 10.8% of all 1,089 Bosnia-Herzegovina sites. CCBot is second at 8.8%. On the allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 2.6%, followed by OAI-SearchBot at 2.1%.
Eight Bosnia-Herzegovina sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Performing Arts | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Civil Engineering, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Performing Arts, Retail, and Visual Art each reach 100% — every site names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Seven further sectors stand at 90%.
Bosnia-Herzegovina's Warehousing sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Warehousing | 71.4% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Performing Arts | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Printing | 60% |
Warehousing reaches 71.4% — the highest rate in Bosnia-Herzegovina — for sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Six further sectors stand at 70%, and eight sectors at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate and Hospitality are Bosnia-Herzegovina's hardest sectors to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate posts the highest mean recommended tier at 2.80, followed by Hospitality at 2.70. Jewellery & Luxury reaches 2.50. A large mid-table cluster from Automotive down to Mail & Delivery spans 2.10–2.30.
Computers & Electronics and Adult are Bosnia's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 50% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Adult and Computers & Electronics both record the lowest mean tier at 1.80, the floor of the bottom-industries table. Machinery, Printing, Reference, Visual Art, and Wholesalers all share a mean tier of 1.90.