Overview
Latvian sites run JavaScript slightly above the global rate
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.4% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
WAF (93.1%) is at the global average. JavaScript (42.9%) is slightly above the 41.3% global rate. Antibot (19.1%) and CAPTCHA (21.4%) are modestly below their global benchmarks; rate limiting (13.3%) and TLS (17.4%) are close to average.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Latvia's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 19.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.4% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.3% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.2% |
WAF adoption stands at 93.1%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 42.9%, followed by CAPTCHA at 21.4%. Antibot (19.1%), TLS (17.4%), and rate limiting (13.3%) follow.
Most Latvian sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 29.9% |
| 2 barriers | 35.1% |
| 3 barriers | 19.1% |
| 4 barriers | 7.1% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
4.6% of Latvian sites carry no barriers. The modal count is two, applying to 35.1% of sites. Three or more barriers account for 30.4% of the total.
Most Latvian 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 1.67.
Nearly nine in ten Latvian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 combined account for 87.7% of sites — Tier 1 at 49.6% and Tier 2 at 38.1%. Tier 3 applies to 9.1%, Tier 4 to 2.2%, and Tier 5 to 1.0%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Latvia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.2% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,100 Latvian sites, 14.9% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools follow at 13.4% and SEO/search indexing bots at 13.2%. Commercial scrapers appear in 8.2% of files.
Uniform rules are Latvia's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.9% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
19.5% of Latvian sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules lead at 41.0%, followed by path-level mixed rules at 33.9%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.9% and mixed-AI posture 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Latvia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.9% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 8% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 8% | 0.6% |
| Google-Extended | 7.6% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 6.4% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.7% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.9% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.6% |
GPTBot carries a Disallow rule on 10.9% of all 1,100 Latvian sites. ChatGPT-User appears in an Allow rule on 2.5% of sites.
Five Latvian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
Automotive, Design, Entertainment, Plastics & Polymers, and Visual Art each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors sit at 90%.
Latvia's Automotive sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 70% |
| Public Relations | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Warehousing | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Printing | 60% |
| Public Policy | 60% |
| Restaurants | 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. Architecture follows at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Latvia'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 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury tops the hardest-sectors ranking with a mean tier of 3.00 and a median of 3. Real Estate follows at 2.70. Equipment & Supplies, Hospitality, and Apparel & Fashion all share a mean tier of 2.50. A mid-table cluster spans 2.10–2.30.
Three Latvian sectors share the most accessible tier floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | 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 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Social & Charitable | 80% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | 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 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Furniture, and Machinery all share the lowest mean tier of 1.90 among Latvian sectors in this group.