Overview
JavaScript is Åland Islands' most elevated secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.7% |
| JavaScript | 44.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.7% |
| TLS | 14.9% |
WAF stands at 93.9%, above the 93.1% global rate. JavaScript reaches 44.4%, above the 41.3% global norm. Antibot (17.0%) is the furthest below its global benchmark (20.2%). CAPTCHA (23.7%), Rate Limiting (11.7%), and TLS (14.9%) are near or below global levels. Sample: 784 sites.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Åland Islands' active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.7% |
| JavaScript | 44.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.7% |
| TLS | 14.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.3% |
WAF is present on 93.9% of Åland Islands sites. JavaScript leads among secondary barriers at 44.4%, followed by CAPTCHA at 23.7%. TLS stands at 14.9%, Antibot at 17.0%, and Rate Limiting at 11.7%.
Most Åland Islands sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.3% |
| 1 barrier | 30.2% |
| 2 barriers | 38.4% |
| 3 barriers | 15.6% |
| 4 barriers | 6.2% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.8% |
4.3% of sites carry no barriers. The modal count is two at 38.4%. Sites with three or more barriers represent 27.1% combined: 15.6% at three, 6.2% at four, and 5.3% at five or six.
Most Åland Islands 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 1.55.
Most Åland Islands sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 32.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.3% |
Tier 1 holds 57.4% of sites and Tier 2 holds 32.5%, a combined 89.9%. Tier 3 stands at 7.9%, Tier 4 at 1.9%, and Tier 5 at 0.3%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Åland Islands' robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 14% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
Across all 784 Åland Islands sites, 16.3% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools appear in 14.0%, SEO/search indexing in 11.1%. Commercial scrapers reach 8.0%, social scrapers 6.5%, and archive crawlers 5.1%.
Uniform rules are Åland Islands' most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.1% |
19.3% of sites have no robots.txt. Uniform per-agent rules are most common at 41.7% of all sites, followed by path-mixed rules at 33.3%. Mixed-AI posture applies to 3.8% of all sites; blanket Disallow: / to 3.1%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Åland Islands' robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.9% | 2.9% |
| CCBot | 9.6% | 1.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.9% | 1.3% |
| Google-Extended | 9.2% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 7.7% | 1% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.4% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7.1% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.1% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.7% | 1% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.7% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 1.3% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 12.9% of all 784 Åland Islands sites. ClaudeBot is second at 9.9%. On the allow side, ChatGPT-User leads at 3.1%, followed by PerplexityBot and OAI-SearchBot both at 2.3%.
Three Åland Islands sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Sports | 100% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Construction | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Design | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Sporting Goods | 90% |
| Wellness | 90% |
Entertainment, Retail, and Sports each reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Twelve further sectors stand at 90%.
Åland Islands' Civil Engineering and Retail sectors lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Design | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Wellness | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 60% |
| Consulting | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Machinery | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Social & Charitable | 60% |
Civil Engineering and Retail both reach 80% — the highest rate in Åland Islands — for sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Four further sectors stand at 70%, and nine sectors at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Åland Islands' hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 70% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 40% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 90% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury posts the highest mean recommended tier at 2.60. Adult (2.40) and Computer Hardware (2.30) follow. A broad mid-table cluster from Apparel & Fashion down to Computers & Electronics spans 1.80–2.20.
Advertising & Marketing is Åland Islands' most accessible sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 100% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Foreign Language | 100% | 14.3% | 28.6% | 57.1% | 0% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 80% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing records the lowest mean tier at 1.50, the floor of the bottom-industries table. Airlines follows at 1.55, and Distance Learning at 1.60. Six sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.70.