Overview
Cypriot sites carry barriers close to global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
WAF reaches 93.4%, above the global 93.1%. Secondary barriers are near-global: JavaScript 42.3%, Antibot 20.8%, CAPTCHA 21.8% (below the 23.1% global), Rate Limiting 13.1%, and TLS 17.8%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Cyprus's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.1% |
WAF is present on 93.4% of Cypriot sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (42.3%) is the most widely deployed, followed by Antibot at 20.8%.
Most Cypriot sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 31.1% |
| 2 barriers | 33.8% |
| 3 barriers | 17.3% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
33.8% of Cypriot sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 31.1%; 4.5% have none. Sites with three or more barriers total 30.7%.
Most Cypriot sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.67.
Nearly nine in ten Cypriot sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 48.4% of sites and Tier 2 covers 39.4%, for a combined 87.8%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.3%, Tier 4 for 2.2%, and Tier 5 for 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Cyprus's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.8% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,098 Cypriot sites, 14.7% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools follow at 13.8% and SEO/search indexing bots at 12.1%.
Uniform rules are Cyprus's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
40.1% of Cypriot sites use uniform per-agent rules; 34.4% apply path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.6% and mixed AI posture 2.2%. 20.4% of sites have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Cyprus's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.7% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 8.2% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.7% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 7.7% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 6.3% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.6% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.4% | 1.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.5% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.7% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.5% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 10.7% of all Cypriot sites. ChatGPT-User leads the allow side at 2.6% of all sites.
Five Cyprus sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Outsourcing | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Outsourcing, and Visual Art each have 100% of their sites naming at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Cyprus's Facilities Services and Market Research sectors lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Facilities Services | 80% |
| Market Research | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Crafts | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Mental Health | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Public Policy | 60% |
Facilities Services and Market Research are tied at 80% — the highest rate of sites naming at least one bot to allow. Airlines, Automotive, Crafts, and five others follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Cyprus's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 90% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records a mean recommended tier of 2.80. Computer Hardware follows at 2.75, with Hospitality and Real Estate both at 2.70.
Five Cypriot sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 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 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Security | 70% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Crafts, Music, Recruitment & Staffing, and Security all record a mean tier of 1.90 — the lowest value in the bottom-industries group.