Overview
JavaScript leads among Anguilla's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 21.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 37.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.3% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
WAF reaches 93.6% across Anguilla’s 671 domains. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript at 37.3% leads, with CAPTCHA at 24.1% and Antibot at 21.6% close behind. Rate Limiting (11.3%) and TLS (16.4%) are the lightest layers.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Anguilla's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 21.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.1% |
| JavaScript | 37.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.3% |
| TLS | 16.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.4% |
WAF is near-universal at 93.6%. JavaScript (37.3%), CAPTCHA (24.1%), and Antibot (21.6%) form a mid-range cluster. Rate Limiting at 11.3% is the least-deployed barrier.
Most Anguilla sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 31% |
| 2 barriers | 35.2% |
| 3 barriers | 17.4% |
| 4 barriers | 7.3% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0.6% |
Two-barrier sites are the most common at 35.2%, followed by one-barrier at 31.0%. Only 4.9% of sites have no barriers at all. Sites with three or more barriers account for 28.9%.
Most Anguilla sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Browser-based median recommended tier is 1, meaning more than half of Anguilla’s domains are retrievable at Tier 1 (Simple). The mean of 1.62 reflects a minority of sites requiring higher tiers.
Most Anguilla sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 51.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
Tier 1 accounts for 51.6% and Tier 2 for 37.6% of sites — 89.2% combined. Tier 3 covers a further 8.5%. Tiers 4 and 5 together affect fewer than 2.5% of domains.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Anguilla's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 10.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers appear in 16.8% of all Anguilla sites’ robots.txt files. SEO audit tools follow at 13.3% and SEO/search indexing at 10.4%. Commercial scrapers (8.3%) and social crawlers (6.9%) trail further behind.
Uniform rules are Anguilla's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.3% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 41.1% of all sites and path-level mixed rules a further 34.3%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.3% of sites. Allow-only and mixed-AI postures each account for roughly 2–3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Anguilla's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.8% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 9.8% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 10.6% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 10.1% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 8% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 4% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 2.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 7% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 6.3% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.4% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.9% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 12.8% of all Anguilla sites — the highest of any agent. PerplexityBot (2.5%) and ChatGPT-User (2.2%) receive the most explicit Allow rules.
Six Anguilla sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Aerospace & Defence | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Libraries | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Social & Charitable | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Non-Profit | 90% |
Aerospace & Defence, Consumer Electronics, Design, Libraries, Newspapers, and Social & Charitable all reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. A further nine sectors sit at 90%.
Anguilla's Photography and Reference sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Photography | 80% |
| Reference | 80% |
| Healthcare | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Import & Export | 66.7% |
| Aerospace & Defence | 60% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Consumer Electronics | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Social & Charitable | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
Photography and Reference top the allowlist table at 80% each — eight in ten sites in those sectors name at least one bot in an Allow rule. Healthcare, Non-Profit, Publishing, and Retail follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Retail and Transport are Anguilla's most demanding sectors to crawl
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 66.7% | 22.2% | 11.1% | 11.1% | 0% | 22.2% | 77.8% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 50% | 90% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Retail and Transport & Logistics share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.40. Hospitality follows at 2.30. All 15 hardest sectors sit within a mean tier range of 1.90 to 2.40.
Advertising, Games, Education, and Music are Anguilla's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 100% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 50% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing, Computer & Video Games, Education, and Music all share a mean recommended tier of 1.60 — the lowest in Anguilla’s sector set. Restaurants sits just above at 1.67.