Overview
JavaScript is Guatemala's most widely deployed secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.8% |
| JavaScript | 43.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.9% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
WAF reaches 93.4% of Guatemala's 1,090 sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 43.9%. CAPTCHA follows at 22.8% and Antibot at 21.3%. TLS stands at 17.9%; Rate Limiting at 13.9% is the least-adopted of the six barriers.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Guatemala's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.4% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.8% |
| JavaScript | 43.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.9% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14% |
WAF covers 93.4% of Guatemalan domains. JavaScript is the primary secondary barrier at 43.9%. CAPTCHA (22.8%) and Antibot (21.3%) are closely grouped. Rate Limiting at 13.9% is the least deployed of the six barrier types.
Most Guatemalan sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.2% |
| 1 barrier | 27.9% |
| 2 barriers | 36.4% |
| 3 barriers | 18.3% |
| 4 barriers | 8.6% |
| 5 barriers | 4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Two barriers is the most common count at 36.4% of sites. Single-barrier configurations represent 27.9%. Only 4.2% of sites deploy no barriers — the lowest zero-barrier rate in this batch. Three or more barriers account for 27.4% of all sites.
Guatemala's sites sit comfortably in the Easy access band
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites resolve at Tier 1 (plain HTTP). The mean of 1.67 indicates a strong concentration toward Tier 1, with a meaningful share requiring browser-based JavaScript rendering.
Most Guatemalan sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
48.3% of Guatemala's sites are at Tier 1 (Simple), and 39.9% at Tier 2 (Easy) — together 88.2% of all domains. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 8.9%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 2.9% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Guatemala's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 13% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are cited in robots.txt on 15.7% of all 1,090 Guatemalan sites — the most-named category. SEO audit tools appear on 13.0% and SEO/search bots on 12.8%. Commercial scrapers are named on 7.6% of all sites.
Uniform rules are Guatemala's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.6% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
79.6% of Guatemalan sites carry a robots.txt file. Uniform per-agent rules, with no path mixing, apply to 41.3% of all sites. Path-level mixed rules cover 32.8% of sites. Allow-only postures account for 2.8% — the highest in this country batch.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Guatemala's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.2% | 2.1% |
| CCBot | 8.5% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.1% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 7.9% | 1.7% |
| Bytespider | 6.4% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.4% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.9% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.4% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.6% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.7% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 11.2% of all Guatemalan sites. CCBot follows at 8.5% and ClaudeBot at 8.1%. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow rates at 2.4%, with OAI-SearchBot at 2.0%.
Seven Guatemalan sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Foreign Language, Newspapers, Plastics & Polymers, and Retail each achieve a 100% named-bot Disallow rate. Eight further sectors sit at 90%, including Adult, Civil Engineering, and Manufacturing.
Guatemala's seven leading sectors explicitly allow crawlers at the highest rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Furniture | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Political Orgs | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
Furniture, Oil & Gas, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, and Sporting Goods each have 70% of their sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule. Eight further sectors reach 60%, including Airlines and Political Orgs.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Real Estate are Guatemala's hardest sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 40% | 50% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Real Estate both record a mean recommended tier of 2.80 with a sector median of 3 (Moderate). Computer Hardware follows at mean 2.75. Jewellery & Luxury sits at mean 2.60. Equipment & Supplies, Furniture, and Automotive all share a mean of 2.50.
Advertising & Marketing is Guatemala's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Insurance | 90% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 60% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 50% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Marketing records the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.80 — the floor for Guatemala. Food & Beverages follows at 1.85. Five sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.90, all at median tier 2.