Overview
JavaScript is Seychelles's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.1% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 38.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.2% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF covers 92.1% of Seychelles' 975 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 38.2% — below 40%. CAPTCHA (23.0%), Antibot (21.9%), TLS (17.5%), and Rate Limiting (12.2%) follow.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Seychelles's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.1% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 38.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.2% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12.8% |
After WAF at 92.1%, JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 38.2%. CAPTCHA (23.0%) and Antibot (21.9%) are separated by 1.1 percentage points, with TLS at 17.5% and Rate Limiting at 12.2%.
One in twenty Seychelles sites carries no detectable barrier
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.1% |
| 1 barrier | 31.3% |
| 2 barriers | 33.1% |
| 3 barriers | 18.4% |
| 4 barriers | 8.4% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
5.1% of Seychelles' 975 sites present no detectable access barrier. Two barriers is the most common configuration at 33.1%. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.5% of the sample.
Most Seychelles sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
A mean of 1.66 and median of 2 characterise Seychelles' access difficulty. Tier 1 covers 49.9% of sites — fractionally below a majority. The 12.7% at Tiers 3–5 pull the mean above 1.5.
Most Seychelles sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.9% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 accounts for 49.9% of Seychelles' sites, Tier 2 for 37.3%, giving a combined 87.2%. Tier 3 covers 10.3%, Tier 4 covers 1.7%, and Tier 5 covers 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Seychelles's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named in 14.7% of Seychelles' 975 sites — the top category. SEO / search indexing follows at 13.1% and SEO audit tools at 12.2%. Figures cover all sites including those without robots.txt.
Nearly one in five Seychelles sites publishes no robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 1.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
19.4% of Seychelles' sites publish no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules account for 39.8% of all sites; path-level mixed rules for 35.5%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.9% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Seychelles's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.9% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 7.7% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.2% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 7.3% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 6.5% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.5% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.4% | 0.1% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.4% | 1.4% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.9% | 0.6% |
GPTBot is Disallowed by 10.9% of Seychelles' 975 sites and explicitly Allowed by 1.9%. ChatGPT-User carries the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.2%. All figures include sites without robots.txt.
Multiple Seychelles sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% |
| Libraries | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
Agriculture, Design, and Entertainment each have every surveyed Seychelles site naming at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Twelve additional sectors stand at 90%.
Seychelles's leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Construction | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Renewable Energy | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
Airlines, Construction, Photography, Publishing, Renewable Energy, Retail, Science, Sports, and Telecom each have 70% of their sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — the highest rate recorded for any sector in Seychelles.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is Seychelles's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 40% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality has the highest mean browser tier at 2.80 in Seychelles and is the leading sector with a median of 3. Computer Hardware and Real Estate follow at 2.70, both also with a median of 3.
Seychelles' most accessible sectors span a narrow accessibility range
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesalers | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 90% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 40% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
The lowest mean browser tier in Seychelles' bottom group is 1.85, reached by Food & Beverages. Banking, Customer Services, Education, Import & Export, Museums, Music, Reference, Restaurants, and Telecom follow at 1.90.