Overview
JavaScript is Barbados's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.7% |
| Antibot | 23.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.9% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.3% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
WAF reaches 92.7% of Barbados sites. Among secondary barriers, CAPTCHA (24.9%) and antibot (23.2%) are the most deployed, with JavaScript at 39.6%, rate limiting at 14.3%, and TLS at 18.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Barbados's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.7% |
| Antibot | 23.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.9% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.3% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.1% |
WAF covers 92.7% of sites. JavaScript (39.6%) is the most adopted secondary barrier, followed by CAPTCHA (24.9%), antibot (23.2%), TLS (18.9%), and rate limiting (14.3%).
Most Barbados sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.9% |
| 1 barrier | 30.9% |
| 2 barriers | 33% |
| 3 barriers | 18.2% |
| 4 barriers | 8.7% |
| 5 barriers | 5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
33.0% of Barbados sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 30.9%. Only 3.9% have no barrier at all, while 32.3% stack three or more.
Most Barbados sites are Simple or Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of Barbados sites are retrievable at plain HTTP. The mean of 1.7 reflects that Tier 1 still dominates the distribution.
Most Barbados sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
47.2% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 39.5% at Tier 2 (Easy), together covering 86.7%. Tier 3 accounts for 10.3%, with Tiers 4 and 5 at 2.4% and 0.6% respectively.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Barbados's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named by 15.7% of all Barbados sites — the most cited category. SEO audit tools (14.2%) and SEO/search indexing (13.2%) follow. Commercial and social scrapers are named by around 8% and 7% respectively.
Uniform rules are Barbados's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.1% |
40.8% of all Barbados sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules cover 34.0%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.1%, mixed AI posture to 2.8%, and allow-only to 2.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Barbados's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.2% | 2% |
| CCBot | 8.1% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.5% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7.2% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.5% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.2% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.6% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 11.2% of all sites — the highest block rate. ClaudeBot (8.5%) and CCBot (8.1%) follow. ChatGPT-User leads allow rules at 2.9%.
Five Barbados sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Printing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Printing, and Retail all record 100% named-bot Disallow rates. Ten further sectors sit at 90%, indicating broad policy coverage across Barbados industries.
Barbados's Veterinary sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Veterinary | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Mental Health | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Human Resources | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Medical Devices | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Social & Charitable | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Sports | 60% |
Veterinary tops the explicit bot allow table at 80%. Airlines, Architecture, Mental Health, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Science each reach 70%. Nine further sectors record allow rates of 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Barbados's hardest sector to crawl
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury, Equipment & Supplies, and Hospitality lead with mean recommended tiers of 2.90–2.70. With n=10 per sector, tier means resolve to 10% increments; these three form a clear top cluster.
Education is Barbados's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Services | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 70% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 70% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 70% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 70% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Education records the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.80. Given the small sample sizes (n=10 per sector), this floor value is meaningful, though individual sector rankings carry limited precision.