Overview
JavaScript is Jordan's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.5% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
WAF covers 92.6% of Jordan's 1,093 surveyed sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.4%, ahead of CAPTCHA at 22.6%, Antibot at 21.3%, TLS at 18.2%, and Rate Limiting at 13.5%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Jordan's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.5% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.5% |
WAF is present on 92.6% of Jordan's sites. Of the five secondary barriers, JavaScript is the most widely deployed at 40.4%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.6% and Antibot at 21.3%.
Two-barrier stacking is the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 30.7% |
| 2 barriers | 33.5% |
| 3 barriers | 17.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.8% |
| 5 barriers | 4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
4.9% of Jordan sites carry no detectable barriers. Two barriers is the modal outcome at 33.5% of sites. Sites with three or more barriers account for 30.8%.
Most Jordan sites are Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
A browser median of 2 and mean of 1.67 characterise Jordan's access difficulty. Tier 1 covers 48.0% of sites and Tier 2 a further 39.4%, giving 87.4% at Tiers 1–2.
Nearly nine in ten sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 accounts for 48.0% of Jordan's sites; Tier 2 adds 39.4%. Tier 3 covers 10.1%, Tier 4 1.8%, and Tier 5 0.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are mentioned in 16.3% of Jordan's 1,093 surveyed sites — the most of any bot category. SEO audit tools follow at 13.0%, then SEO / search indexing at 12.8%. Figures include sites without robots.txt.
Uniform rules are the most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.7% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
20.1% of Jordan's sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules is the most prevalent posture at 42.1% of all sites, followed by path-level mixed rules at 32.2%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.9% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 9.2% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.1% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.8% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 7.6% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.2% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.6% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.5% | 0.8% |
Of Jordan's 1,093 sites, GPTBot is Disallowed by 11.9% and explicitly Allowed by 1.9%. ChatGPT-User has the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.4%. All values include sites without robots.txt.
Seven sectors name bots on every site
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Facilities Services | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Consumer Electronics, Design, Entertainment, Retail, Visual Art, and Warehousing all show 100% named-bot Disallow rates — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. Eight further sectors stand at 90%.
Retail leads explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Public Relations | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
Retail tops Jordan's explicit bot Allow rankings at 80% of sites in that sector naming at least one bot in an Allow rule. Airlines, Architecture, Automotive, Photography, Publishing, Science, and Travel & Tourism each follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury are the hardest sectors to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 40% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 80% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.70 among Jordan's industries, each with a median of 3. Real Estate follows with a mean of 2.60.
Wholesalers is the most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 80% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Wholesalers has the lowest mean recommended tier in Jordan's bottom-15 ranking at 1.90, tied with eight other sectors.