Overview
CAPTCHA is Greenland's standout secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 16.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 44.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 15.2% |
WAF reaches 94.5% in Greenland. JavaScript follows at 44.9%. CAPTCHA is notably elevated at 25.3%. Antibot (16.5%) is low, while TLS (15.2%) and Rate Limiting (12.4%) are the lowest of the six barriers.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and CAPTCHA top Greenland's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 16.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 44.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 15.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.9% |
WAF leads at 94.5%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (44.9%) ranks first, followed by CAPTCHA (25.3%), Antibot (16.5%), TLS (15.2%), and Rate Limiting (12.4%).
Most Greenland sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.4% |
| 1 barrier | 29.7% |
| 2 barriers | 36.8% |
| 3 barriers | 19.4% |
| 4 barriers | 6.6% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
The modal site deploys exactly two barriers (36.8%). Zero-barrier sites account for 3.4%. Sites carrying three or more barriers total 30.1%.
Most Greenland sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
With a browser median of Tier 1, more than half of Greenlandic sites are accessible via plain HTTP. Tier 1 alone covers 58.0% of sites, and Tiers 1 and 2 combined account for 90.3%.
Most Greenland sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 58% |
| 2 - Easy | 32.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 (Simple) covers 58.0% and Tier 2 (Easy) 32.3% — 90.3% combined. Tier 3 (Moderate) accounts for 7.4%, Tier 4 (Complex) 1.5%, and Tier 5 (Advanced) 0.8%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Greenland's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.1% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 17.3% of all Greenland sites — the highest category rate. SEO audit tools reach 14.1%, SEO/search indexers 12.6%, commercial scrapers 8.7%, and social scrapers 8.0%.
Uniform rules are Greenland's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 3.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.4% |
44.4% of all Greenland sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules apply on 31.0%. Blanket Disallow: / reaches 3.4%, with Mixed-AI posture and Allow-only both at 3.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Greenland's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 13.6% | 2.3% |
| CCBot | 10.2% | 1.2% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.9% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 9.6% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 8.8% | 0.7% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.5% | 0.5% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.6% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.5% | 0.7% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.7% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.5% | 1.2% |
GPTBot is blocked on 13.6% of all Greenland sites — the highest of any agent. CCBot (10.2%) and ClaudeBot (9.9%) follow. ChatGPT-User earns the most explicit Allow rules at 2.7%.
Nine Greenland sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| General | 100% |
| Mass Media | 100% |
| Online Services | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Renewable Energy | 90% |
Apparel & Fashion, Design, Entertainment, Food & Beverages, General, Mass Media, Online Services, Retail, and Wine & Spirits all reach 100%: every site in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule.
Greenland's Retail and Travel & Tourism sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Wine & Spirits | 66.7% |
| Mental Health | 62.5% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| General | 60% |
| Human Resources | 60% |
| Machinery | 60% |
| Mass Media | 60% |
Retail and Travel & Tourism top the list at 80% of sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule. Airlines, Photography, Publishing, and Telecom follow at 70%. Wine & Spirits reaches 66.7%, Mental Health 62.5%.
Industry Patterns
Retail is Greenland's hardest sector to crawl
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 80% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Retail posts the highest mean retrieval tier at 2.40. Science (2.35) and Apparel & Fashion and Computer Hardware (both 2.30) follow. All top sectors have a median of 2; no sector in Greenland reaches a median of 3.
Computer & Video Games is Greenland's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Computer & Video Games records the lowest mean retrieval tier at 1.50. Recruitment & Staffing (1.60), Design (1.60), Furniture (1.60), and General (1.60) also share a near-floor position.