Overview
Slovenian sites run JavaScript slightly above the global rate
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 43.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
WAF adoption stands at 92.9%, close to the global rate of 93.1%. JavaScript (43.4%) leads among secondary barriers and sits above its global benchmark of 41.3%. Antibot (19.8%), CAPTCHA (22.4%), and TLS (17.9%) are all near their global norms.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Slovenia's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 43.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.7% |
WAF is deployed by 92.9% of Slovenia sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript ranks first at 43.4%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.4% and Antibot at 19.8%. TLS (17.9%) and Rate Limiting (12.4%) complete the profile.
Most Slovenian sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 29.9% |
| 2 barriers | 34.2% |
| 3 barriers | 19.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
4.5% of Slovenia sites carry no detected barriers. The modal count is two barriers, accounting for 34.2% of sites. Sites deploying three or more barriers total 31.4%.
Most Slovenian sites need Easy-tier access to retrieve content
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The browser-based median tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.68 across 1,101 Slovenia sites.
Nearly nine in ten Slovenian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 combined account for 86.6% of Slovenia sites (48.5% and 38.1% respectively). Tier 3 holds 10.5%, Tier 4 holds 2.4%, and Tier 5 holds 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Slovenia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,101 Slovenia sites, 15.2% name at least one AI crawler in a robots.txt rule. SEO audit tools appear on 12.9% of sites and SEO/search indexing bots on 12.4%. Commercial scrapers are referenced by 8.7% of sites.
Uniform rules are Slovenia's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
18.5% of Slovenia sites have no robots.txt. Among those that do, uniform per-agent rules account for 42.7% of all sites, path-level mixed rules for 33.7%, blanket Disallow: / for 2.5%, and mixed-AI posture for 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Slovenia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.5% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.3% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 6.7% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.8% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 1.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.5% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.5% of all Slovenia sites — the highest block rate of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User receives the most explicit Allow rules, appearing on 2.5% of all sites.
Eleven Slovenian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Facilities Services | 100% |
| Oil & Gas | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Public Relations | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
Eleven sectors — including Design, Entertainment, Facilities Services, Oil & Gas, and Retail — reach 100%, meaning every site in those sectors names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. A further four sectors reach 90%.
Seven Slovenian sectors lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
Seven sectors — including Airlines, Construction, Photography, and Travel & Tourism — each have 70% of their sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Eight further sectors reach 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Slovenia's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 60% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records the highest mean tier at 2.80, followed by Real Estate at 2.70 and Medical Devices at 2.60. Equipment & Supplies, Furniture, and Apparel & Fashion all share a mean of 2.50, forming a secondary cluster.
Seven Slovenian 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 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Public Utility | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Automotive, Banking, Computers & Electronics, Manufacturing, Music, Printing, and Visual Art all record a mean tier of 1.90 — the accessibility floor across Slovenia's bottom industries. Eight further sectors sit just above at 2.00.