Overview
JavaScript and Rate Limiting are the Bahamas' most notable secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 22.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.5% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 16.2% |
| TLS | 18.1% |
WAF reaches 92.9% across 1,026 Bahamas domains. JavaScript at 43.5% and Rate Limiting at 16.2% are both above their global rates. CAPTCHA (22.5%), Antibot (22.5%), and TLS (18.1%) are near-typical.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops the Bahamas' active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 22.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.5% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 16.2% |
| TLS | 18.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.6% |
WAF sits at 92.9% and JavaScript follows at 43.5%. Rate Limiting at 16.2% is modestly above its global rate. CAPTCHA and Antibot (both 22.5%) and TLS (18.1%) round out the stack.
Most Bahamas sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.4% |
| 1 barrier | 28.3% |
| 2 barriers | 34.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18.2% |
| 4 barriers | 9.5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
Two-barrier sites account for 34.6% of Bahamas domains — the modal category. One-barrier sites follow at 28.3%. Sites with no barriers are 4.4%, and three or more total 32.8%.
Most Bahamas 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 the Bahamas’ 1,026 domains at Tier 1. The mean of 1.71 confirms most sites cluster at Tiers 1 and 2.
Most Bahamas sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
Tier 1 covers 47.1% of sites and Tier 2 a further 38.9% — 86.0% combined. Tier 3 accounts for 10.8%. Tiers 4 and 5 together affect 3.2% of domains.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top the Bahamas' robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 11.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 3.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in 14.8% of all Bahamas sites’ robot policies. SEO audit tools (11.6%) and SEO/search indexing (11.4%) follow closely. Commercial scrapers (7.7%) and social crawlers (6.3%) are the next most common.
Uniform rules are the Bahamas' most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
Uniform per-agent rules account for 40.3% of all Bahamas sites and path-level mixed rules for 33.1%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 2.9% of sites. Mixed-AI posture accounts for 2.6%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in the Bahamas' robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 2% |
| CCBot | 8.6% | 1.2% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.7% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 7.9% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 6.6% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.6% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.1% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.3% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.6% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.9% |
GPTBot is named in Disallow rules on 11.0% of all Bahamas sites. ClaudeBot (8.7%) and CCBot (8.6%) follow. ChatGPT-User (2.4%) and PerplexityBot (2.4%) lead Allow rules.
Games, Design, Entertainment, and Retail all name at least one bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
Four sectors see every site naming at least one bot in a Disallow rule: Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, and Retail. Eleven further sectors sit at 90%, including Accounting, Adult, Apparel, and Healthcare.
The Bahamas' Airlines, Photography, Publishing, and Retail sites lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Biotech | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Printing | 60% |
| Public Safety | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Wholesalers | 60% |
Airlines, Photography, Publishing, and Retail each reach 70% — seven in ten sites in each sector name at least one bot in an Allow rule. Beauty & Cosmetics, Biotech, Furniture, and others follow at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is the Bahamas' most demanding sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads with a median recommended tier of 3 and a mean of 2.90. Furniture and Hospitality (both median Tier 3, mean 2.60) and Beauty & Cosmetics, Equipment & Supplies, and Real Estate (median Tier 3, mean 2.50) follow.
Printing and Mental Health are the Bahamas' most accessible sectors programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maritime | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mental Health | 100% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Printing and Mental Health both record a mean recommended tier of 1.80 — the floor in the Bahamas’ bottom-15 sector set. Visual Art, Music, and Construction also cluster at mean 1.80–1.90.