Overview
JavaScript is Denmark's most elevated secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 20.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.1% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
WAF reaches 93.6%, above the global 93.1%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (43.5%) and TLS (18.6%) both exceed their global benchmarks of 41.3% and 17.7%. CAPTCHA (22.6%) sits slightly below 23.1%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Denmark's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 20.4% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.1% |
| TLS | 18.6% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.7% |
WAF is present on 93.6% of Danish sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (43.5%) leads and is above the global average. TLS (18.6%) and CAPTCHA (22.6%) follow.
Most Danish sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.9% |
| 2 barriers | 36.1% |
| 3 barriers | 17% |
| 4 barriers | 7.8% |
| 5 barriers | 5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
36.1% of Danish sites carry exactly two barriers — the most common count. Single-barrier sites account for 29.9%; 4.0% have none. Sites with three or more barriers total 30.1%.
Most Danish sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites are retrievable without JavaScript rendering. The mean tier is 1.63.
Nearly nine in ten Danish sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 covers 50.3% of sites and Tier 2 covers 38.7%, combining to 89.0%. Tier 3 accounts for 8.9%, Tier 4 for 1.6%, and Tier 5 for 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Denmark's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
Across all 1,104 Danish sites, 15.9% name at least one AI crawler. SEO audit tools follow at 13.9% and SEO/search indexing bots at 13.0%.
Uniform rules are Denmark's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.9% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
42.8% of Danish sites use uniform per-agent rules; 33.9% apply path-level mixed rules. Mixed AI posture covers 2.6% and blanket Disallow: / 2.4%. 18.1% of sites have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Denmark's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 8.7% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.7% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 8.8% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 7.3% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 1.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.2% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 1.8% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.3% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 12.3% of all Danish sites — the highest block rate of any AI agent. ChatGPT-User leads the allow side at 2.4% of all sites.
Eight Danish sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Automotive, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, Newspapers, Retail, and Visual Art each have 100% of their sites naming at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
Denmark's Automotive sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Facilities Services | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 60% |
| Printing | 60% |
Automotive has the highest explicit allow rate at 90% of sites naming at least one bot to allow. Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Science, Sporting Goods, and Telecom follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Denmark's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 50% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 60% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury records a mean recommended tier of 2.80. Real Estate follows at 2.70. Computer Hardware sits at 2.45, with Equipment & Supplies and Human Resources both at 2.30.
Four Danish sectors share the most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 60% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Advertising & Marketing, Computers & Electronics, and Customer Services all record a mean tier of 1.80 — the lowest value in the bottom-industries group.