Overview
JavaScript leads the secondary barrier mix in Brunei
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 20.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 39.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.2% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
WAF coverage sits at 93.1%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (39.5%) leads by a clear margin. CAPTCHA (24.1%) and Antibot (20.7%) follow, while Rate Limiting is the lightest layer at 12.2%.
Barrier Landscape
CAPTCHA is the leading secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 20.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 39.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.2% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.9% |
JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 39.5%, well ahead of CAPTCHA (24.1%) and Antibot (20.7%). Rate Limiting (12.2%) is deployed on fewer than a third as many Brunei sites as JavaScript.
Two-barrier sites are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.1% |
| 1 barrier | 31.2% |
| 2 barriers | 34.2% |
| 3 barriers | 17.9% |
| 4 barriers | 7.8% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
34.2% of Brunei sites carry exactly two barriers. One-barrier sites follow at 31.2%. Fewer than 5% deploy five or more, and only 0.4% run the full set of six.
Most Brunei sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
A majority of Brunei sites resolve without elevated browser access. The mean of 1.63 is pulled up by Tier 3 and above sites, which together account for just over 11% of domains.
More than half of sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 51% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Just over half of Brunei domains need only Basic browser retrieval. Tier 2 adds 37.9%, meaning 88.9% of sites are reachable within the first two tiers. Tier 5 accounts for just 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers are named in rules on 16.9% of all Brunei sites, ahead of SEO audit tools (13.9%) and SEO/search bots (12.8%). Monitoring bots are cited on fewer than 0.5% of sites.
Uniform per-agent rules are the dominant robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
43.0% of sites apply uniform per-agent rules with no path variation. Path-level mixing appears on 32.1%. Blanket Disallow: / and mixed AI posture each remain below 3%.
GPTBot is the most blocked agent
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 13% | 3% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.1% | 2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.6% | 2.1% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.9% | 2.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 1.3% |
GPTBot leads Disallow entries at 13.0%, followed by ClaudeBot at 9.1%. ChatGPT-User receives the most explicit Allow coverage at 3.1% of all Brunei sites.
Six Brunei sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Telecom | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Retail and Telecom each report a 100% named-bot Disallow rate. Nine further sectors hold 90%.
Airlines leads explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Mental Health | 80% |
| Public Relations | 80% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Graphic Design | 62.5% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Sports | 60% |
Those three sectors each show an 80% explicit Allow rate. Seven industries follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 70% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 60% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 70% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 70% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 60% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality leads with a Tier 3 median and a mean of 2.80. Equipment & Supplies also holds a Tier 3 median at a mean of 2.60.
Aerospace & Defence is the most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 60% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 70% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 90% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Aerospace & Defence | 90% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Three sectors share the floor tier mean of 1.70: Adult, Advertising & Mktg, and Aerospace & Defence. Six further sectors cluster at 1.80.