Overview
Lithuanian sites track global barrier rates across all six types
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.2% |
| JavaScript | 42.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
WAF (93.1%) is at the global norm. JavaScript (42.7%) is slightly above the 41.3% global rate; all other secondary barriers — antibot (19.7%), CAPTCHA (21.2%), rate limiting (13.1%), TLS (16.7%) — are within one percentage point of their global benchmarks.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Lithuania's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.2% |
| JavaScript | 42.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14% |
WAF adoption stands at 93.1%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 42.7%, followed by CAPTCHA at 21.2%. Antibot (19.7%), TLS (16.7%), and rate limiting (13.1%) are all near global averages.
Most Lithuanian sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5% |
| 1 barrier | 30.4% |
| 2 barriers | 34.3% |
| 3 barriers | 18% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
5.0% of Lithuanian sites carry no barriers. The modal count is two, applying to 34.3% of sites. Three or more barriers account for 30.3% of the total.
Most Lithuanian sites need Easy-tier access to retrieve content
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, meaning JavaScript rendering is required for over half of sites. The mean tier is 1.69.
Nearly nine in ten Lithuanian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 40% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 combined account for 87.4% of sites — Tier 1 at 47.4% and Tier 2 at 40.0%. Tier 3 applies to 9.5%, Tier 4 to 2.2%, and Tier 5 to 0.9%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Lithuania's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,109 Lithuanian sites, 15.3% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools follow at 13.2% and SEO/search indexing bots at 12.4%. Commercial scrapers appear in 8.4% of files.
Uniform rules are Lithuania's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
19.7% of Lithuanian sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules lead at 40.8%, followed by path-level mixed rules at 34.4%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.8% and mixed-AI posture 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Lithuania's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.3% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.7% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.9% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 7.8% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 6.8% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.6% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.7% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.6% | 1.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.1% | 0.7% |
GPTBot carries a Disallow rule on 11.3% of all 1,109 Lithuanian sites. ChatGPT-User appears in an Allow rule on 2.8% of sites.
Four Lithuanian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Outsourcing | 90% |
Automotive, Design, Entertainment, and Visual Art each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Eleven further sectors sit at 90%.
Lithuania's Automotive sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Wine & Spirits | 70% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Outsourcing | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
Automotive leads by a clear margin: 80% of sites in this industry explicitly allow at least one named crawler, reflecting commercial demand for indexing and aggregation. Airlines follows at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Lithuania's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 60% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 80% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury tops the hardest-sectors ranking with a mean tier of 3.00 and a median of 3. Computer Hardware (2.75), Hospitality, and Real Estate (both 2.70) also carry a median of 3. A mid-table cluster from Beauty & Cosmetics to Automotive spans mean tiers of 2.10–2.30.
Computers & Electronics is Lithuania's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | 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 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Computers & Electronics records the lowest mean tier of 1.80 in the accessible-sectors group. Six sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.90, including Adult, Import & Export, Machinery, Manufacturing, Music, and Visual Art.