Overview
JavaScript is Bermuda's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.6% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF sits at 93.0% across Bermuda’s 933 domains. JavaScript (40.7%) leads secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (23.6%), TLS (17.5%), Rate Limiting (14.6%), and Antibot (18.8%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Bermuda's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 18.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.6% |
| JavaScript | 40.7% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.6% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.8% |
WAF reaches 93.0% and JavaScript follows at 40.7%. CAPTCHA (23.6%), TLS (17.5%), Rate Limiting (14.6%), and Antibot (18.8%) complete the secondary barrier profile.
Most Bermuda sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.6% |
| 1 barrier | 30.4% |
| 2 barriers | 35.4% |
| 3 barriers | 19.2% |
| 4 barriers | 7.6% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
Two-barrier sites account for 35.4% of Bermuda’s domains, followed by one-barrier at 30.4%. Only 3.6% carry no barriers. Three or more barriers apply to 30.5% of sites.
Most Bermuda sites are Simple or Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Browser-based median recommended tier is 2, placing fewer than half of Bermuda’s 933 domains at Tier 1. The mean of 1.67 confirms most sites remain at Tiers 1 and 2, with few requiring higher.
Most Bermuda sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 covers 49.5% of sites and Tier 2 a further 37.9% — 87.4% combined. Tier 3 accounts for 9.3%. Tiers 4 and 5 together affect 3.3% of domains.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Bermuda's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
AI crawlers appear in 16.3% of all Bermuda sites’ robot policies. SEO audit tools follow at 15.3% and SEO/search indexing at 12.6%. Commercial scrapers (7.6%) and social crawlers (6.5%) trail further behind.
Uniform rules are Bermuda's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
Uniform per-agent rules account for 41.4% of all Bermuda sites and path-level mixed rules for 31.6%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.9% of sites. Mixed-AI posture accounts for 2.9%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Bermuda's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 1.2% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.9% | 1.3% |
| Google-Extended | 9.1% | 1.8% |
| Bytespider | 7.6% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.4% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 3% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.9% | 2.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.5% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 1% |
GPTBot is named in Disallow rules on 12.0% of all Bermuda sites. Google-Extended (9.1%) and CCBot (9.1%) follow. ChatGPT-User (3.0%) and OAI-SearchBot (2.5%) lead Allow rules.
Six Bermuda sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, and Retail all reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Nine further sectors sit at 90%.
Bermuda's seven leading sectors all explicitly allow crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Public Utility | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
| Machinery | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Social & Charitable | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Sporting Goods | 60% |
| Sports | 60% |
Airlines, Investment, Photography, Public Utility, Publishing, Real Estate, and Retail each reach 70% — seven in ten sites in each sector name at least one bot in an Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Bermuda's most demanding sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 100% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 90% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 60% | 0% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads at Moderate median tier, with Sporting Goods close behind. Computer Hardware and Hospitality share the next mean tier position — Computer Hardware at Moderate median, Hospitality at Easy median. Furniture closes the top-four Moderate group.
Libraries is Bermuda's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance | 90% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 80% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 100% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Investment | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 80% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 90% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Libraries records the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.80. Banking (1.80) and Customer Services (1.80) share this floor, along with Design, Healthcare, and several others — all clustering at mean Tier 1.80.