Overview
JavaScript is Poland's most prevalent secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 18.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 42.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
WAF adoption is 94.0%, above the global 93.1%. JavaScript (42.8%) leads among secondary barriers, above the global 41.3%. Antibot (18.9%) and Rate Limiting (11.0%) are both below their global averages of 20.2% and 12.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and CAPTCHA lead Poland's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 18.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 42.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 11% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.4% |
WAF is present on 94.0% of Poland sites. JavaScript (42.8%) leads among secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.4%. Antibot (18.9%) and Rate Limiting (11.0%) are both below global averages.
Most Polish sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 30.6% |
| 2 barriers | 35.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18% |
| 4 barriers | 7.8% |
| 5 barriers | 3.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Two barriers is the modal count at 35.6% of sites. One barrier accounts for 30.6%; zero-barrier sites are 4.2%. Sites carrying three or more barriers total 29.6%.
More than half of Polish sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1, indicating over half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.64 across 1,111 sites.
Nearly nine in ten Polish sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 accounts for 50.4% and Tier 2 for 38.6%, combining to 89.0%. Tier 3 is 8.6%, Tier 4 is 1.5%, and Tier 5 is 0.9%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Poland's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
Across all 1,111 Poland sites, 16.0% name at least one AI crawler, 13.6% name an SEO audit tool, and 12.1% name an SEO/search indexing bot. Commercial scrapers appear on 8.6% of sites.
Uniform rules are Poland's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 46% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 46.0% of all sites — the highest share in this group — with path-level mixed rules at 32.1%. 17.3% of sites have no robots.txt. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.4% and mixed-AI posture to 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Poland's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 2.4% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 9% | 1.4% |
| Google-Extended | 8.3% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7.7% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.1% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.7% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 12.3% of all Poland sites, the highest block rate of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User is the most-allowed agent at 2.6% of all sites.
Nine Polish sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% |
| Veterinary | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
Automotive, Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Plastics & Polymers, Retail, Textiles & Nonwovens, and Veterinary each reach 100%: every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Poland's Automotive sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Restaurants | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
Automotive tops the allowlist chart at 80%, meaning 80% of sites name at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Nine further sectors — including Airlines, Construction, Publishing, and Retail — reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Computer Hardware are Poland's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 50% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury has the highest mean tier at 2.80, followed by Computer Hardware at 2.75. Hospitality, Real Estate, and Retail are clustered at 2.50, with Apparel and Beauty & Cosmetics at 2.30.
Airlines, Computers & Electronics and Crafts are Poland's most accessible sectors
| 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% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | 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 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 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% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Airlines, Computers & Electronics, and Crafts all record a mean tier of 1.80, the lowest in the bottom-sector group for Poland.