Overview
JavaScript is Guadeloupe's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 18.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 15.9% |
WAF reaches 93.6% across Guadeloupe. JavaScript (41.1%) leads secondary barriers. CAPTCHA (21.8%) and Antibot (18.7%) follow. Rate Limiting (12.7%) is the lowest secondary barrier.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Guadeloupe's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.6% |
| Antibot | 18.7% |
| CAPTCHA | 21.8% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 15.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12% |
WAF covers 93.6% of Guadeloupe's 932 domains. JavaScript reaches 41.1%, CAPTCHA 21.8%, Antibot 18.7%, TLS 15.9%, and Rate Limiting 12.7%.
Most Guadeloupe sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 32.5% |
| 2 barriers | 35.4% |
| 3 barriers | 16.3% |
| 4 barriers | 7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.2% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
35.4% of Guadeloupe sites carry exactly two barriers. Single-barrier sites account for 32.5%. Zero-barrier sites reach 4.2%, while 27.9% of sites stack three or more.
Most Guadeloupe sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Browser median tier is 1, meaning more than half of Guadeloupe's 932 sites resolve at plain HTTP. Mean is 1.61 — among the lower values in this batch.
Most Guadeloupe sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
53.2% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 35.4% at Tier 2 (Easy), covering 88.6% combined. Tier 3 accounts for 8.7%, Tier 4 for 2.0%, and Tier 5 for 0.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Guadeloupe's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 6.7% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.8% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
14.4% of all Guadeloupe sites name an AI crawler and 12.9% name an SEO audit tool in a robots.txt rule. SEO/search indexing follows at 11.8%, commercial scrapers at 6.7%.
Uniform rules are Guadeloupe's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.4% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
39.4% of all sites use uniform per-agent rules and 34.5% use path-level mixed rules. 2.5% carry a blanket Disallow: / and 2.4% hold a mixed AI posture. 20.5% have no robots.txt.
GPTBot and Google-Extended face the most Disallow rules in Guadeloupe
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 9.2% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 7% | 0.8% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.1% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 7.2% | 1.1% |
| Bytespider | 6% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.8% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.3% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.9% | 2.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 3.5% | 0.2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.5% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 3.5% | 0.8% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 9.2% of all Guadeloupe sites, Google-Extended on 7.2%, ClaudeBot on 7.1%, and CCBot on 7.0%. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rules at 3.1%.
Eight Guadeloupe sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Civil Engineering | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Graphic Design | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Museums | 90% |
Civil Engineering, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Graphic Design, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail all reach 100%. Adult, Agriculture, Beauty & Cosmetics, General, Jewellery & Luxury, Mass Media, and Museums follow at 90%.
Guadeloupe's Museums sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Museums | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Biotech | 66.7% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 60% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Banking | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Civil Engineering | 60% |
| Legal | 60% |
| Manufacturing | 60% |
Museums reaches 80% for explicit bot Allow rules. Automotive, Photography, Retail, Science, and Sports follow at 70%, with Biotech at 66.7% and eight more sectors at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Sporting Goods and Hospitality are Guadeloupe's most demanding sectors to crawl
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Sporting Goods leads with a 2.70 mean and Moderate median; Hospitality follows at 2.60, also Moderate. Food & Beverages, Real Estate, Apparel & Fashion, and Retail all share a 2.40 mean — the first two Moderate, the latter two Easy.
Science and Wholesalers are Guadeloupe's most accessible sectors programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Science, Wholesalers, Reference, Pharmaceuticals, Computers & Electronics, and Advertising & Mktg all sit at a mean tier of 1.80 — the floor for Guadeloupe's bottom-15 sectors.