Overview
JavaScript is Mauritius's standout secondary barrier after WAF
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.9% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
WAF appears on 92.8% of Mauritius sites. JavaScript rendering (40.8%) is the leading secondary barrier, followed by TLS (17.2%) and Rate Limiting (12.9%) — a fairly balanced secondary profile.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Mauritius's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.9% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.4% |
JavaScript rendering leads secondary barriers at 40.8%. CAPTCHA (22.6%) and Antibot (19.9%) follow closely behind, with Rate Limiting (12.9%) and TLS (17.2%) accounting for the rest.
Two barriers is Mauritius's most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.7% |
| 1 barrier | 31.6% |
| 2 barriers | 33.7% |
| 3 barriers | 17.1% |
| 4 barriers | 8.7% |
| 5 barriers | 3.9% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
33.7% of sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count in Mauritius. Single-barrier sites (31.6%) are slightly less common, and 4.7% of sites present no barrier at all.
Exactly half of Mauritius sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median browser difficulty score is 1, with half or more of sites accessible at Tier 1. A mean of 1.65 signals a persistent minority of harder-to-reach properties.
Nearly nine in ten Mauritius sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
50.3% of sites resolve at Tier 1 with a browser, and a further 37.8% fall at Tier 2. Only 2.9% require the most demanding tiers (4–5).
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Mauritius's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
AI crawlers are named in 15.8% of all Mauritius sites. SEO audit tools (13.2%) and SEO search indexing bots (13.1%) are statistically tied for second place.
Uniform per-agent rules cover four in ten Mauritius sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.4% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
40.2% of sites use uniform per-agent rules with no path mixing. A further 33.3% mix rules at the path level. Blanket Disallow: / appears on 2.9% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Mauritius's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2.4% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.9% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 7.7% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 6.8% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.8% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.8% |
GPTBot is blocked on 11.0% of all Mauritius sites — the highest of any AI crawler. ChatGPT-User holds the highest explicit allow rate at 2.7%, followed by PerplexityBot at 2.3%.
Multiple Mauritius sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Machinery | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
Three sectors — Computer & Video Games, Design, and Retail — show a 100% named-bot block rate. Twelve further sectors follow at 90%, indicating broad use of explicit crawler restrictions.
Mauritius's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Real Estate | 80% |
| Comics & Animation | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Education | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Mental Health | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Restaurants | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
Airlines and Real Estate both explicitly allow named bots on 80% of their sites — the highest rate in Mauritius. Six further sectors, including Publishing and Travel & Tourism, follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Mauritius's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 80% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury reaches a mean browser difficulty score of 3.00 — the only sector to average at Tier 3 — with 50% Rate Limiting and 40% TLS alongside a 90% WAF rate.
Music sites are Mauritius's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| 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% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Music records the lowest mean browser difficulty score in the country at 1.80. Despite 100% WAF adoption, secondary barriers remain relatively light, with only 10% AI-blocking reported.