Overview
JavaScript is Curaçao's standout secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 95.1% |
| Antibot | 21% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.3% |
| JavaScript | 43% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 17% |
WAF covers 95.1% of Curaçao sites. JavaScript reaches 43.0%, followed by CAPTCHA at 23.3%, Antibot at 21.0%, Rate Limiting at 14.7%, and TLS at 17.0%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Curaçao's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 95.1% |
| Antibot | 21% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.3% |
| JavaScript | 43% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 17% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.2% |
WAF covers 95.1% of Curaçao's 974 domains. JavaScript reaches 43.0%, CAPTCHA 23.3%, Antibot 21.0%, TLS 17.0%, and Rate Limiting 14.7%.
Most Curaçao sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.1% |
| 1 barrier | 30.1% |
| 2 barriers | 34.6% |
| 3 barriers | 19.4% |
| 4 barriers | 7.9% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
34.6% of Curaçao sites carry exactly two barriers. Single-barrier sites account for 30.1%. Zero-barrier sites reach 3.1%, while 31.8% of sites stack three or more.
Most Curaçao sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Browser median tier is 1, meaning over half of Curaçao's 974 sites are retrievable at plain HTTP. Mean is 1.62, with a tail of harder sites pulling it upward.
Most Curaçao sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 35% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
53.1% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 35.0% at Tier 2 (Easy), totalling 88.1%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.1%, Tier 4 for 2.4%, and Tier 5 for just 0.4%.
robots.txt
SEO audit tools and AI crawlers top Curaçao's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
15.1% of all Curaçao sites name an SEO audit tool and 16.5% name an AI crawler in a robots.txt rule. SEO/search indexing follows at 12.2%, commercial scrapers at 7.9%.
Uniform rules are Curaçao's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
42.2% of all Curaçao sites use uniform per-agent rules, and 33.7% use path-level mixed rules. 2.8% carry a blanket Disallow: / and 2.8% hold a mixed AI posture. 19.7% have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Curaçao's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.4% | 2% |
| CCBot | 9.8% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.1% | 0.6% |
| Google-Extended | 8.7% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.6% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.5% | 2.3% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.3% | 1.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.6% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 0.6% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 12.4% of all Curaçao sites, CCBot on 9.8%, ClaudeBot on 9.1%, and Google-Extended on 8.7%. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rules at 2.3%.
Six Curaçao sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
Design, Entertainment, Foreign Language, Newspapers, Retail, and Visual Art all reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Eight more sectors sit at 90%.
Curaçao's Graphic Design and Comics & Animation sites lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Graphic Design | 83.3% |
| Comics & Animation | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Manufacturing | 60% |
Graphic Design reaches 83.3% for explicit bot Allow rules and Comics & Animation 80%. Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Sporting Goods, and Wholesalers each follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury is Curaçao's hardest sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 60% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury tops Curaçao's sector difficulty list with a mean recommended tier of 2.70 and a Tier 3 median. Equipment & Supplies, Consumer Electronics, and Hospitality all share a 2.40 mean. Real Estate and Retail each sit at 2.50 mean with Tier 2 medians.
Travel & Tourism is Curaçao's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Art | 100% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 40% | 90% | 40% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 90% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Machinery | 100% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Six sectors share a mean tier of 1.80 — the floor for Curaçao's bottom-15. Food & Beverages sits close at 1.85.