Overview
JavaScript leads Belize’s secondary barriers by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.7% |
| Antibot | 21.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.1% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
WAF covers 91.7% of Belize’s 1,020 sites. JavaScript (41.1%) leads secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (25.1%), Antibot (21.5%), TLS (17.5%), and Rate Limiting (14.7%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Belize's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 91.7% |
| Antibot | 21.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.1% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 17.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 77.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.1% |
WAF reaches 91.7% of Belizean sites. JavaScript at 41.1% leads the secondary barrier group, ahead of CAPTCHA (25.1%), Antibot (21.5%), TLS (17.5%), and Rate Limiting (14.7%).
Most Belize sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.6% |
| 1 barrier | 29.3% |
| 2 barriers | 33.2% |
| 3 barriers | 17.1% |
| 4 barriers | 9.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.8% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
Two barriers is the modal count at 33.2% of sites. Single-barrier sites represent 29.3%. At 5.6%, Belize's zero-barrier share is the highest in this country batch. Three or more barriers account for 31.9% of Belize's 1,020 domains.
Belize's sites sit comfortably in the Easy access band
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, indicating fewer than half of sites are at Tier 1 (plain HTTP). The mean of 1.70 shows a substantial Tier 1 lean. 48.0% of sites are at Tier 1; 37.6% at Tier 2. Tier 3 accounts for 10.8% — the highest in this batch.
Most Belize sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
48.0% of Belizean sites are at Tier 1 (Simple) and 37.6% at Tier 2 (Easy). Together these account for 85.6% of all domains. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 10.8% — the batch high. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 3.5% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Belize's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 17.4% of all 1,020 Belizean sites. SEO audit tools follow at 14.5%, and SEO search indexing at 11.5%. Commercial scrapers are named on 8.6%.
Uniform rules are Belize's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.3% |
77.7% of Belizean sites publish a robots.txt file. Of those with robots.txt, 45.1% use uniform per-agent rules, 29.6% mix path-level rules, and 3.1% use a blanket Disallow: /.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Belize's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.2% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 9.2% | 1.5% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.8% | 1.3% |
| Google-Extended | 9% | 1.7% |
| Bytespider | 7.5% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.3% | 0.5% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.5% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.2% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.6% | 1% |
GPTBot carries Disallow rules on 12.2% of all Belizean sites — the highest block rate in this country batch. CCBot follows at 9.2% and Google-Extended at 9.0%. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rates at 2.7%, with PerplexityBot at 2.5%.
Six Belizean sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ceramics & Pottery | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
Ceramics & Pottery, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Visual Art each reach a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Nine further sectors sit at 90%, including Airlines and Consumer Electronics.
Belize's seven leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers at the highest rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Biotech | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Comics & Animation | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Veterinary | 60% |
Airlines, Architecture, Biotech, Photography, Publishing, Real Estate, and Retail each have 70% of their sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule. Eight further sectors reach 60%, including Hospitality, Insurance, Science, and Travel & Tourism.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is Belize's most demanding sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 70% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 80% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Chemicals | 80% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality leads Belize's difficulty ranking at a median of Moderate. Real Estate follows at mean 2.60. Computer Hardware, Apparel & Fashion, Equipment & Supplies, Human Resources, and Retail all share a mean of 2.50. Furniture follows at mean 2.40.
Recruitment & Staffing is Belize's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 80% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Recruitment & Staffing records Belize's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.90. Nine sectors share a mean of 2.00, each at a median tier of 2 (Easy).