Overview
Greek sites carry barriers close to global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.8% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
WAF adoption (93.2%) matches the global rate. Secondary barriers are similarly close to global norms: JavaScript 41.4% (global 41.3%), antibot 20.8%, TLS 18.2%, CAPTCHA 22.2%, rate limiting 12.8%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Greece's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 20.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 41.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.8% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.2% |
WAF is present on 93.2% of Greek sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (41.4%) and CAPTCHA (22.2%) rank first and second, both at or near the global average.
Most Greek sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.1% |
| 1 barrier | 31.3% |
| 2 barriers | 35.1% |
| 3 barriers | 16.5% |
| 4 barriers | 7.9% |
| 5 barriers | 4.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
35.1% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 31.3%; 4.1% have none. 29.6% deploy three or more barriers.
Most Greek sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The browser-based median tier is 1, meaning over half of sites resolve at Tier 1 without JavaScript rendering. The mean tier is 1.64.
Nearly nine in ten Greek sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.9% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 accounts for 50.9% and Tier 2 for 37.3%, giving a combined 88.2%. Tier 3 holds 9.6%, Tier 4 1.4%, and Tier 5 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Greece's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,106 Greek sites, 14.8% name at least one AI crawler, 13.7% name an SEO audit tool, and 12.0% name an SEO or search-indexing bot. Commercial scrapers appear on 7.9% of sites.
Uniform rules are Greece's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
18.4% of sites have no robots.txt. Of those with one, the leading posture is uniform per-agent rules (43.9%), followed by path-level mixed rules (32.3%). Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.6% and mixed-AI posture to 2.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Greece's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.8% | 1.7% |
| CCBot | 8.4% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 8% | 0.7% |
| Google-Extended | 7.7% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.4% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.4% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.1% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 10.8% of all Greek sites. ChatGPT-User receives an explicit Allow on 2.5% — the highest allow rate of any AI agent.
Five Greek sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Construction | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Visual Art each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Greece's Construction sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Construction | 90% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Outsourcing | 60% |
Construction has the highest explicit allow rate among Greek sectors: 90% of sites in that sector name at least one bot to allow. Seven further sectors reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Greece's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 80% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records the highest mean tier at 2.90. Real Estate (2.70) and Equipment & Supplies, Hospitality, and Human Resources (all 2.40) form a cluster immediately below.
Four Greek 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 |
| Furniture | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Crafts, Education, Libraries, and Manufacturing all record a mean tier of 1.80 — the lowest in the bottom-industry group. All four are reachable at near-Tier-1 difficulty on average.