Overview
San Marino sites run CAPTCHA above and Antibot below global rates
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 16% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.4% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 16.9% |
WAF adoption is 93.0%, matching the global rate of 93.1%. CAPTCHA at 25.4% exceeds the global benchmark of 23.1%. Antibot (16.0%) sits 4.2 points below the global average of 20.2%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops San Marino's active secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 16% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.4% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.1% |
| TLS | 16.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.3% |
WAF is present on 93.0% of sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript ranks highest at 41.1%, followed by CAPTCHA at 25.4%. Antibot (16.0%) is the lowest-rated secondary barrier.
Most San Marino sites carry two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.3% |
| 1 barrier | 28.7% |
| 2 barriers | 36.1% |
| 3 barriers | 19.2% |
| 4 barriers | 6.6% |
| 5 barriers | 4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.1% |
36.1% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. 5.3% have no barriers at all. Sites with three or more barriers account for 29.9% of the sample.
More than half of San Marino sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The browser-based median recommended tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites are accessible via plain HTTP requests. The mean tier is 1.56.
Most San Marino sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 58.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 31.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 accounts for 58.2% of sites and Tier 2 for 31.4%, giving a combined 89.6%. Tier 3 covers 7.3%, Tier 4 covers 2.3%, and Tier 5 covers 0.8%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top San Marino's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
Across all 832 San Marino sites, 15.0% name at least one AI crawler in their robots.txt. SEO audit tools follow at 14.2%, with SEO/search indexing bots named on 13.2% of sites.
Uniform rules are San Marino's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
20.4% of San Marino sites have no robots.txt. Among those that do, uniform per-agent rules apply to 43.0% of all sites, path-level mixed rules to 31.1%, blanket Disallow: / to 2.9%, and mixed AI posture to 2.2%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in San Marino's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.7% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.5% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.6% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.4% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.5% | 1.8% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 1.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.2% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 10.7% of all San Marino sites — the highest block rate among AI agents. ChatGPT-User leads on the allow side at 2.2% of all sites.
Five San Marino sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Construction | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Wellness | 90% |
Beauty & Cosmetics, Design, Food & Beverages, Foreign Language, and Retail each see every site naming at least one bot to restrict in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors reach 90%.
Three San Marino sectors share the highest explicit bot allowlisting rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Food & Beverages | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Wellness | 80% |
| Design | 70% |
| Healthcare | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Restaurants | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 66.7% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 50% |
Food & Beverages, Publishing, and Wellness each see 80% of their sites naming at least one bot to allow. Design, Healthcare, Photography, Restaurants, Retail, and Travel & Tourism follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is San Marino's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 60% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 80% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware records the highest tier median (3) with a mean recommended tier of 2.40. Jewellery & Luxury follows with the highest mean at 2.50 and a tier median of 2. Airlines sits at 2.45.
Seven San Marino sectors share the most accessible tier floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 90% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Automotive, Design, Distance Learning, Finance, Government, and Photography all record a mean recommended tier of 1.70 — the lowest value in the bottom-industries table.