Overview
Svalbard sites run CAPTCHA and JavaScript well above global rates
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97.4% |
| Antibot | 14.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 35.1% |
| JavaScript | 50.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 22.1% |
| TLS | 13% |
Based on a small sample of 77 sites, WAF adoption stands at 97.4%, above the global rate of 93.1%. CAPTCHA (35.1%) and JavaScript (50.6%) are notably above their global rates of 23.1% and 41.3%. Antibot (14.3%) is below the global benchmark of 20.2%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Svalbard's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97.4% |
| Antibot | 14.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 35.1% |
| JavaScript | 50.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 22.1% |
| TLS | 13% |
| Has robots.txt | 84.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 10.4% |
Based on 77 sites, WAF is deployed by 97.4% of Svalbard sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript ranks first at 50.6%, followed by CAPTCHA at 35.1% and Rate Limiting at 22.1%. Antibot (14.3%) and TLS (13.0%) are below global benchmarks. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
All Svalbard sites carry at least one barrier and most carry two
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 0% |
| 1 barrier | 22.1% |
| 2 barriers | 40.3% |
| 3 barriers | 28.6% |
| 4 barriers | 1.3% |
| 5 barriers | 7.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
No Svalbard site carries zero detected barriers. The modal count is two barriers, accounting for 40.3% of the 77 sites. Sites deploying three or more barriers total 37.7%. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Svalbard sites split almost evenly between Simple and Easy access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
The browser-based median tier is 2, with 49.4% of the 77 Svalbard sites at Tier 1 and 48.1% at Tier 2. The mean tier is 1.53. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Nearly all Svalbard sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 48.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 2.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 combined account for 97.5% of the 77 Svalbard sites (49.4% and 48.1% respectively). Tier 3 holds 2.6%; no sites reach Tier 4 or Tier 5. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
robots.txt
SEO bots top Svalbard's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 10.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 18.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 6.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 11.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 10.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
Across all 77 Svalbard sites, 18.2% name at least one SEO/search indexing bot in a robots.txt rule. Social/content scrapers are named on 11.7% of sites, and AI crawlers on 10.4%. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Path-level mixed rules are Svalbard's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 29.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 45.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 0% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 9.1% |
15.6% of Svalbard sites have no robots.txt. Path-level mixed rules account for 45.5% of all sites — the highest of any posture. Blanket Disallow: / reaches 9.1%, well above typical rates. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Svalbard's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 9.1% | 2.6% |
| CCBot | 7.8% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 2.6% | — |
| Google-Extended | 5.2% | — |
| Bytespider | 3.9% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 0% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 7.8% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.5% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 0% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 5.2% | 2.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.9% | — |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 9.1% of all 77 Svalbard sites — the highest block rate of any AI agent. GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, and OAI-SearchBot are each named in an Allow rule on 2.6% of sites. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Mass Media is Svalbard's only sector where every site names a bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Mass Media | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 85.7% |
| General | 80% |
| IT Services | 80% |
| Online Services | 80% |
| Software & Dev | 80% |
| Education | 50% |
Mass Media reaches 100%, meaning every site in that sector names at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Computer & Video Games reaches 85.7%, and General, IT Services, Online Services, and Software & Dev each reach 80%. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Svalbard's General and Online Services sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| General | 60% |
| Online Services | 60% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Software & Dev | 50% |
| Computer & Video Games | 42.9% |
| IT Services | 30% |
| Education | 16.7% |
General and Online Services each have 60% of their sites naming at least one bot to allow in an Allow rule. Mass Media and Software & Dev follow at 50%. Only seven sectors appear in the allowlist chart. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
Industry Patterns
Computer & Video Games is Svalbard's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 57.1% | 42.9% | 57.1% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 16.7% | 0% | 50% | 16.7% | 0% | 50% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 90% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| IT Services | 100% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Online Services | 100% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
Based on 77 sites across only seven sectors, Computer & Video Games records the highest mean tier at 1.86, followed by Education at 1.83. IT Services and Mass Media both sit at 1.50. Small-sample results should be interpreted with caution.
No bottom-industry data is available for Svalbard
The bottom-industries dataset is empty for Svalbard. With only 77 sites across seven sectors, the sample is too small to produce a separate most-accessible-sector ranking.