Overview
JavaScript is Dominica's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 19.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.6% |
| JavaScript | 39% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
WAF covers 93.3% of Dominica sites. JavaScript (39.0%) leads secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (21.6%) and Antibot (19.9%). Rate Limiting (13.0%) is the lowest secondary barrier.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Dominica's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.3% |
| Antibot | 19.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.6% |
| JavaScript | 39% |
| Rate Limiting | 13% |
| TLS | 16.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.2% |
WAF covers 93.3% of sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (39.0%) has the highest adoption, followed by CAPTCHA (21.6%), antibot (19.9%), TLS (16.7%), and rate limiting (13.0%).
Most Dominica sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.6% |
| 1 barrier | 32.4% |
| 2 barriers | 35.8% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 6.7% |
| 5 barriers | 3.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
35.8% of Dominica sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 32.4%. Only 3.6% have no barrier at all, and 28.2% stack three or more.
Most Dominica sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1, meaning over half of sites are reachable via plain HTTP. The mean of 1.60 reflects a distribution weighted toward the simpler tiers.
Most Dominica sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
53.6% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 35.2% at Tier 2 (Easy), together reaching 88.8%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.2%, while Tiers 4 and 5 cover 1.4% and 0.5% respectively.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Dominica's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named by 16.5% of all Dominica sites — the leading category. SEO audit tools (14.1%) and SEO/search indexing (13.4%) follow. Commercial and social scrapers each appear in around 7% of policies.
Uniform rules are Dominica's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.4% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3% |
44.1% of all Dominica sites use uniform per-agent rules — the highest share of any posture. Path-level mixed rules cover 32.4%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.0%, mixed AI posture to 2.9%, and allow-only to 2.5%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Dominica's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 8% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 10% | 1.4% |
| Google-Extended | 9.1% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.1% | 0.7% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.7% | 2.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.4% | 2.9% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.7% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 1.1% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 12.3% of all Dominica sites. ClaudeBot (10.0%) and Google-Extended (9.1%) follow. ChatGPT-User and PerplexityBot each lead allow rules at 2.9%.
Design and Retail sites in Dominica all name at least one bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Customer Services | 85.7% |
Design and Retail both record 100% named-bot Disallow rates. Twelve further sectors — including Accounting & Auditing, Banking, Healthcare, and Telecom — sit at 90% or above.
Dominica's Museums sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Museums | 80% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Construction | 60% |
| Hospitality | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Maritime | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
Museums tops the explicit bot allow table at 80%. Advertising & Marketing, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Telecom follow at 70% each. Nine further sectors record allow rates of 60%.
Industry Patterns
Sporting Goods and Hospitality are Dominica's hardest sectors to crawl
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 60% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 60% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 60% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Sporting Goods leads with a mean recommended tier of 2.80. Hospitality and Retail both follow at 2.50, with Computer Hardware close behind at 2.40. With n=10 per sector, tier means step in 10% increments.
Five sectors share Dominica's most accessible floor programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 0% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 0% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 50% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 70% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Adult, Distance Learning, Healthcare, Photography, and Recruitment & Staffing all record the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.60. At n=10 per sector, rankings at this level carry limited precision.