Overview
JavaScript leads Honduras's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 20.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.7% |
| JavaScript | 41.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.7% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
WAF covers 92.8% of Honduras's 1,072 sites. JavaScript leads secondary defences at 41.8%. CAPTCHA stands at 22.7% and Antibot at 20.6%. TLS (17.3%) and Rate Limiting (13.7%) are the lowest-adopted of the six barrier types.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Honduras's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 20.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.7% |
| JavaScript | 41.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.7% |
| TLS | 17.3% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.3% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14% |
WAF is deployed on 92.8% of Honduran domains. JavaScript is the leading secondary barrier at 41.8%. CAPTCHA follows at 22.7% and Antibot at 20.6%. Rate Limiting at 13.7% is the least-adopted barrier across Honduran sites.
Most Honduran sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 30.5% |
| 2 barriers | 32.6% |
| 3 barriers | 19.2% |
| 4 barriers | 8.5% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Two barriers is the modal count at 32.6% of sites, but single-barrier configurations are close behind at 30.5%. Sites with no barriers account for 4.9%. Three or more barriers are found on 27.9% of Honduras's 1,072 domains.
Honduras'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 1.70 reflects a lean toward Tier 1 retrieval, with a substantial portion of sites requiring JavaScript-based rendering.
Most Honduran sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.9% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
47.9% of Honduran sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple), with 38.7% at Tier 2 (Easy) — together 86.6% of all domains. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 10.0%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 3.5% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Honduras's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt on 15.6% of all 1,072 Honduran sites. SEO audit tools follow at 13.4% and SEO/search bots at 12.0%. Commercial scrapers appear on 7.8% of all sites; archive crawlers on 5.1%.
Uniform rules are Honduras's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.5% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.7% |
79.3% of Honduran sites publish a robots.txt file. Uniform per-agent rules apply to 41.5% of all sites. Path-level mixed rules cover 32.5%. Mixed AI posture — blocking some agents while allowing others — appears on just 2.1% of all Honduran sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Honduras's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11% | 1.7% |
| CCBot | 8.2% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.1% | 0.7% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 7.1% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.8% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.2% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.9% | 2.4% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.5% | 0.6% |
GPTBot carries Disallow rules on 11.0% of all Honduran sites. CCBot follows at 8.2% and ClaudeBot at 8.1%. ChatGPT-User has the widest Allow rate at 2.5%, ahead of OAI-SearchBot at 2.4%.
Five Honduran sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Plastics & Polymers, and Retail each reach a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors sit at 90%, including Healthcare and Consumer Electronics.
Honduras's Market Research and Oil & Gas sites lead in allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 80% |
| Oil & Gas | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Public Policy | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
| Veterinary | 60% |
Market Research and Oil & Gas both reach an 80% explicit bot Allow rate — the highest in Honduras. Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Science each reach 70%. Eight further sectors have 60% of their sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is Honduras's most demanding sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 80% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 80% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Real Estate tops Honduras's difficulty ranking with a mean recommended tier of 3.00 and a sector median of 3 (Moderate). Furniture and Hospitality follow at mean 2.90, also at median 3. Computer Hardware sits at mean 2.75, also with a median of 3.
Wine & Spirits is Honduras's most accessible sector programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 0% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Printing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 90% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Wine & Spirits records Honduras's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.90, shared with Visual Art, Textiles, Reference, Printing, Maritime, and Healthcare. All carry a median tier of 2 (Easy), placing retrieval within the standard browser tier range.