Overview
JavaScript is notably elevated on Faroe Islands sites
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.9% |
| Antibot | 14.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 46.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.1% |
| TLS | 15.5% |
WAF adoption stands at 94.9%, above the global 93.1%. JavaScript rendering applies to 46.2% of sites, well above the global 41.3%. Antibot (14.3%) is below the global 20.2%. CAPTCHA (23.6%), rate limiting (10.1%), and TLS (15.5%) are near or below global averages.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops the Faroe Islands' active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.9% |
| Antibot | 14.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 46.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.1% |
| TLS | 15.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 83.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 16.9% |
WAF adoption is 94.9%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 46.2%, notably above the global 41.3%. CAPTCHA is the second-highest secondary barrier at 23.6%.
Most Faroese sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2.8% |
| 1 barrier | 31.8% |
| 2 barriers | 36.5% |
| 3 barriers | 19.8% |
| 4 barriers | 5.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
2.8% of Faroese sites carry no barriers, below the global norm. The modal count is two barriers at 36.5% of sites. Sites with three or more barriers account for 28.9% combined.
Most Faroese sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 1, indicating that over half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP. The mean tier is 1.58.
Most Faroese sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 30.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 accounts for 57.5% of sites and Tier 2 for 30.4%, giving a combined Tier 1–2 rate of 87.9%. Tier 3 covers 9.7%, Tier 4 1.9%, and Tier 5 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top the Faroe Islands' robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 18% |
| SEO / search indexing | 10.5% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
Across all 746 Faroese sites, 18.0% name at least one AI crawler — above the pattern seen in larger neighbouring countries. SEO audit tools are named by 14.1% and commercial scrapers by 8.8%.
Uniform rules are the Faroe Islands' most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 45.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 4% |
16.2% of Faroese sites have no robots.txt. Among the rest, uniform per-agent rules account for 45.6%, path-level mixed rules for 32.2%, blanket Disallow: / for 4.0%, and mixed-AI posture for 2.7%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in the Faroe Islands' robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 14.6% | 2% |
| CCBot | 10.5% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 10.5% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 9.5% | 0.9% |
| Bytespider | 8.3% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.8% | 2.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.1% | 1.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 6.3% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 1.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 6% | 0.7% |
GPTBot appears in a Disallow rule on 14.6% of all Faroese sites. ChatGPT-User is the most explicitly allowed, appearing in an Allow rule on 2.1% of all sites.
Nine Faroese sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Architecture | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Sporting Goods | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Architecture, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals, Printing, Retail, and Sporting Goods all reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule.
The Faroe Islands' Medical Devices sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Medical Devices | 71.4% |
| Computer Hardware | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 66.7% |
| Fishery | 66.7% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
| Machinery | 60% |
| Photography | 60% |
| Printing | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
Medical Devices is the top-ranked sector, with 71.4% of sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Computer Hardware, Publishing, Science, and Travel & Tourism follow at 70.0%.
Industry Patterns
Automotive is the Faroe Islands' hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 85.7% | 71.4% | 57.1% | 42.9% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 14.3% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 30% | 60% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Automotive records the highest mean recommended tier at 2.60. Beauty & Cosmetics (2.43) and Computer Hardware (2.40) form the next tier below.
Food & Beverages is the Faroe Islands' most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 12.5% | 50% | 37.5% | 25% | 25% | 87.5% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Religion & Belief | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
Food & Beverages records the lowest mean recommended tier in the bottom-industries list at 1.60, the sole sector at that floor.