Overview
Hungarian sites carry slightly fewer secondary barriers than global norms
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.5% |
| JavaScript | 42.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.8% |
| TLS | 18% |
WAF adoption is 92.9%, just under the global 93.1%. JavaScript (42.1%) leads secondary barriers and is slightly above the global 41.3%. Antibot (19.5%), CAPTCHA (21.5%), and rate limiting (11.8%) all sit below global benchmarks; TLS (18.0%) is marginally above.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Hungary's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.5% |
| JavaScript | 42.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.8% |
| TLS | 18% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.9% |
WAF is present on 92.9% of Hungarian sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (42.1%) and CAPTCHA (21.5%) rank first and second. Rate limiting (11.8%) is below the global average of 12.9%.
Most Hungarian sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.7% |
| 1 barrier | 30.8% |
| 2 barriers | 35% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 7.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
35.0% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 30.8%; 4.7% have none. 29.6% deploy three or more barriers.
Most Hungarian sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The browser-based median tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites resolve at Tier 1. The mean tier is 1.65.
Most Hungarian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 accounts for 50.0% and Tier 2 for 38.3%, giving a combined 88.3%. Tier 3 holds 9.5%, Tier 4 1.5%, and Tier 5 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Hungary's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,111 Hungarian sites, 16.2% 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 8.8% of sites.
Uniform rules are Hungary's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
17.9% of sites have no robots.txt. Among those with one, the leading posture is uniform per-agent rules (44.6%), followed by path-level mixed rules (32.6%). Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.8% and mixed-AI posture 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Hungary's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.8% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 9.6% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 9% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 7.7% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.3% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.3% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.9% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.8% of all Hungarian sites. ChatGPT-User receives an explicit Allow on 2.4% of sites — the highest allow rate of any AI agent.
Nine Hungarian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Insurance | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Customer Services | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
Automotive, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, Insurance, Newspapers, Retail, and Visual Art each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Eight Hungarian sectors share the highest crawler allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Farms & Ranches | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
Airlines, Automotive, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, Travel & Tourism, and Wholesalers all reach 70% — the highest rate in Hungary — meaning that share of sites in each sector names at least one bot to allow.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Hungary's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 80% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records the highest mean tier at 2.80. Real Estate and Retail follow at 2.50, with Human Resources at 2.40. The remaining top-10 sectors cluster between 2.10 and 2.30.
Five Hungarian sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 100% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Airlines, Education, Events, Furniture, and Libraries all record a mean tier of 1.80 — the lowest in the bottom-industry group — indicating near-Tier-1 accessibility on average.