Overview
JavaScript is Andorra's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 41.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.7% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
WAF adoption stands at 92.8%, a fraction below the 93.1% global rate. JavaScript (41.6%) and CAPTCHA (22.6%) lead among secondary barriers. Antibot (19.3%), TLS (16.4%), and Rate Limiting (11.7%) all sit slightly below global averages. Sample: 991 sites.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Andorra's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 41.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.7% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 78.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.5% |
WAF is deployed by 92.8% of Andorra sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 41.6%, followed by CAPTCHA at 22.6%. Antibot (19.3%), TLS (16.4%), and Rate Limiting (11.7%) round out the profile.
Most Andorra sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 31.5% |
| 2 barriers | 34% |
| 3 barriers | 18.1% |
| 4 barriers | 7.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
4.9% of sites carry no barriers. The largest share — 34.0% — deploys exactly two. Sites with three or more barriers account for 29.6% combined (18.1% at three, 7.1% at four, 4.4% at five or six).
Most Andorra sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites are reachable without browser rendering. The mean tier is 1.57.
Nearly nine in ten Andorra sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 34.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.3% |
Tier 1 accounts for 55.7% of sites and Tier 2 for 34.1%, giving a combined 89.8%. Tier 3 holds 8.2%, Tier 4 just 1.7%, and Tier 5 a marginal 0.3%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Andorra's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
Across all 991 Andorra sites, 15.6% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools appear in 13.9% of files, SEO/search indexing in 12.9%. Commercial and social scrapers each reach 6.4%; archive crawlers 5.7%.
Path-mixed rules are Andorra's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 36.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 37.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.3% |
21.3% of sites have no robots.txt. Among those with one, path-level mixed rules are most common at 37.4%, followed by uniform per-agent rules at 36.7%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.3% of all sites; mixed-AI posture to 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Andorra's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.5% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 8.1% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1.4% |
| Google-Extended | 8.3% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 7.1% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.4% | 2.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.5% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.8% | 1% |
GPTBot carries the largest block share at 10.5% of all 991 sites. ClaudeBot is second at 8.4%. On the allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 2.7%, followed by PerplexityBot at 2.1%.
Six Andorra sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Veterinary | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| TV & Film | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Retail, and Veterinary all reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Nine further sectors stand at 90%.
Andorra's Ceramics & Pottery and Publishing sectors lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ceramics & Pottery | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Wholesalers | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Human Resources | 70% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Museums | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Training & Cert. | 70% |
| Veterinary | 70% |
| Customer Services | 66.7% |
| Writing & Editing | 66.7% |
Ceramics & Pottery, Publishing, and Wholesalers each reach 80% — the highest rate in Andorra — for sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. A further ten sectors stand at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Consumer Electronics and Hospitality are Andorra's hardest sectors to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Consumer Electronics posts the highest mean recommended tier at 2.70, followed by Hospitality at 2.60. Computer Hardware and Furniture both reach 2.50. A broad mid-table cluster from Automotive to Design spans 2.00–2.40.
Adult is Andorra's most accessible sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 80% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 90% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult records the lowest mean tier at 1.70, the floor of the bottom-industries table. Food & Beverages stands at 1.75, and nine sectors share a mean tier of 1.80.