Overview
Slovak sites track global barrier rates closely across all six types
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.7% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
WAF adoption stands at 93.9%, near the global rate of 93.1%. JavaScript (42.9%) leads among secondary barriers. Antibot (19.7%), CAPTCHA (22.7%), TLS (17.3%), and Rate Limiting (12.7%) all sit within 1 percentage point of global benchmarks.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Slovakia's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 19.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.7% |
| JavaScript | 42.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.7% |
WAF is present on 93.9% of sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript ranks highest at 42.9%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.7%. Rate Limiting (12.7%) is the least deployed secondary barrier.
Most Slovak sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.6% |
| 2 barriers | 36.3% |
| 3 barriers | 17.8% |
| 4 barriers | 8.6% |
| 5 barriers | 3.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
36.3% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. 4.0% have no barriers. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.2% of the sample.
Most Slovak sites need Easy-tier access to retrieve content
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The browser-based median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP requests. The mean tier is 1.66.
Nearly nine in ten Slovak sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 41% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 accounts for 48.2% of sites and Tier 2 for 41.0%, giving a combined 89.2%. Tier 3 covers 8.3%, Tier 4 covers 1.9%, and Tier 5 covers 0.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Slovakia's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
Across all 1,106 Slovak sites, 14.7% name at least one AI crawler in their robots.txt. SEO audit tools follow at 13.9%, with SEO/search indexing bots named on 12.3% of sites.
Uniform rules are Slovakia's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
17.7% of Slovak sites have no robots.txt. Among those that do, uniform per-agent rules apply to 43.9% of all sites, path-level mixed rules to 32.8%, blanket Disallow: / to 2.9%, and mixed AI posture to 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Slovakia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.1% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 8.4% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 7.5% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.8% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.3% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 11.1% of all Slovak sites — the highest block rate among AI agents. ChatGPT-User leads on the allow side at 2.4% of all sites.
Nine Slovak sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Outsourcing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Veterinary | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
In 9 of the top 15 sectors — including Automotive, Retail, and Visual Art — every site names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. The next six sectors each stand at 90%.
Slovakia's Automotive sites are the only sector to explicitly allow bots
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Warehousing | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Farms & Ranches | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Restaurants | 60% |
Automotive is the only sector where every site names at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Warehousing follows at 80%, with Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Real Estate, Retail, and Science each at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Retail are Slovakia's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 80% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury and Retail share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.50. Human Resources follows at 2.40. Apparel & Fashion, Beauty & Cosmetics, Hospitality, Medical Devices, and Real Estate all share a mean tier of 2.30.
Five Slovak sectors share the most accessible tier floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Safety | 100% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 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 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 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 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Machinery, Manufacturing, Music, Visual Art, and Wine & Spirits all record a mean recommended tier of 1.90 — the lowest value in the bottom-industries table.