Overview
North Macedonia sites run JavaScript and TLS above global rates
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.1% |
| JavaScript | 44.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 19% |
WAF adoption is 93.3%, near the global 93.1%. JavaScript (44.3%) is 3 points above the global 41.3%, and TLS (19.0%) exceeds the global 17.7%. Antibot (21.9%) also runs slightly above its global average of 20.2%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops North Macedonia's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.1% |
| JavaScript | 44.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 19% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.6% |
WAF is present on 93.3% of North Macedonia sites. JavaScript (44.3%) leads among secondary barriers, followed by Antibot at 21.9% and CAPTCHA at 23.1%. TLS (19.0%) is above the global average of 17.7%.
Most North Macedonia sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.4% |
| 1 barrier | 28.3% |
| 2 barriers | 35.6% |
| 3 barriers | 17.3% |
| 4 barriers | 9% |
| 5 barriers | 4.9% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Two barriers is the modal count at 35.6% of sites. One barrier accounts for 28.3%; zero-barrier sites are 4.4%. Sites carrying three or more barriers total 31.7%.
Most North Macedonia sites need Easy-tier access to retrieve content
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites are fully accessible via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.68 across 1,094 sites.
Most North Macedonia sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 accounts for 48.0% and Tier 2 for 39.7%, combining to 87.7%. Tier 3 is 9.2%, Tier 4 is 2.2%, and Tier 5 is 0.9%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top North Macedonia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,094 North Macedonia sites, 16.2% name at least one AI crawler, 14.2% name an SEO audit tool, and 13.3% name an SEO/search indexing bot. Commercial scrapers appear on 7.8% of sites.
Uniform rules are North Macedonia's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 41.8% of all sites; path-level mixed rules 34.2%. 18.9% of sites have no robots.txt. Mixed-AI posture applies to 2.9% and blanket Disallow: / to 2.4%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in North Macedonia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.7% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.2% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.1% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.4% | 2% |
| Bytespider | 6.6% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.5% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 2.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.1% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.2% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.2% | 0.9% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.7% of all North Macedonia sites, the highest block rate of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User is the most-allowed agent at 2.8% of all sites.
Six North Macedonia sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Printing, Retail, and Visual Art each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Nine further sectors reach 90%.
North Macedonia's Retail sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Printing | 70% |
| Public Policy | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
Retail tops the allowlist chart at 80%, meaning 80% of sites name at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Nine sectors — including Airlines, Automotive, Photography, and Science — reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is North Macedonia'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% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 60% | 40% | 70% | 40% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury has the highest mean tier at 3.00, followed by Computer Hardware at 2.85 and Real Estate at 2.80. Furniture (2.60) sits fourth; Human Resources and Retail share fifth at 2.50.
Eight North Macedonia sectors share the most accessible tier floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 60% | 20% | 80% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | 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 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Customer Services, Manufacturing, Printing, Sporting Goods, Sports, Visual Art, and Wine & Spirits all record a mean tier of 1.90, the lowest in the bottom-sector group.