Overview
Belarusian sites carry barriers close to global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.7% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.1% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
WAF reaches 93.7%, just above the global 93.1%. Secondary barriers are near-global: JavaScript 41.5%, CAPTCHA 23.2%, Antibot 19.0% (slightly below 20.2%), Rate Limiting 14.1%, and TLS 16.5%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Belarus's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.7% |
| Antibot | 19% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.1% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.8% |
WAF is present on 93.7% of Belarusian sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (41.5%) and CAPTCHA (23.2%) are the two most prevalent, both closely aligned with global averages.
Most Belarusian sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 30.5% |
| 2 barriers | 34.6% |
| 3 barriers | 19% |
| 4 barriers | 7.7% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
34.6% of Belarusian sites carry exactly two barriers — the most common count. Single-barrier sites account for 30.5%; 4.2% have none. Sites with three or more barriers total 30.8%.
Most Belarusian sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites are retrievable without JavaScript rendering. The mean tier is 1.65.
Nearly nine in ten Belarusian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 51.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 36.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 51.1% of sites and Tier 2 covers 36.4%, for a combined 87.5%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.5%, Tier 4 for 2.3%, and Tier 5 for 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Belarus's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.8% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,110 Belarusian sites, 15.5% name at least one AI crawler. SEO/search indexing bots are cited on 14.1% of sites and SEO audit tools on 12.8%.
Uniform rules are Belarus's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.1% |
40.1% of Belarusian sites use uniform per-agent rules; 35.5% apply path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / accounts for 3.1% and mixed AI posture for 2.6%. 19.3% of sites have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Belarus's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.7% | 1.4% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.5% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.0% of all Belarusian sites. ChatGPT-User leads the allow side at 2.8% of all sites — the highest explicit allow rate of any AI agent.
Four Belarus sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Automotive, Design, Visual Art, and Warehousing each have 100% of their sites naming at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Belarus's Automotive sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Crafts | 70% |
| Market Research | 70% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Printing | 70% |
| Public Policy | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Warehousing | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Banking | 60% |
Automotive has the highest explicit allow rate at 90% of sites naming at least one bot to allow. Publishing follows at 80%, with a further 12 sectors at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Belarus's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 60% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records a mean recommended tier of 3.00. Real Estate follows at 2.80, with Hospitality and Human Resources both at 2.70.
Eight Belarusian sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 100% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 60% | 0% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 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 |
| Banking | 100% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 20% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Banking, Construction, Machinery, Manufacturing, Public Safety, Reference, and Veterinary all record a mean tier of 1.90 — the lowest value in the bottom-industries group.