Overview
JavaScript is Haiti's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.7% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 39.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.8% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
WAF covers 92.7% of Haitian sites. JavaScript (39.8%) leads secondary barriers. CAPTCHA (22.6%) edges Antibot (19.6%). Rate Limiting (13.8%) and TLS (17.4%) are the lowest.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Haiti's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.7% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.6% |
| JavaScript | 39.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.8% |
| TLS | 17.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 16% |
WAF reaches 92.7% of sites. JavaScript (39.8%) is the leading secondary barrier. CAPTCHA (22.6%) and Antibot (19.6%) sit below the global averages of 23.1% and 20.2%. Rate Limiting (13.8%) and TLS (17.4%) complete the profile.
Most Haitian sites carry a single barrier
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.9% |
| 1 barrier | 34.1% |
| 2 barriers | 31.8% |
| 3 barriers | 17.8% |
| 4 barriers | 7.7% |
| 5 barriers | 4.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
34.1% of Haitian sites deploy exactly one barrier — making it the modal count and distinguishing Haiti from many peers. 3.9% have none. Sites with three or more barriers total 30.1%.
Most Haitian sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1 (Simple), meaning over 50% of Haitian sites are accessible via plain HTTP retrieval. The mean of 1.64 reflects a significant share at higher tiers pulling the average up.
Most Haitian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.6% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 (Simple) covers 52.1% of Haitian sites and Tier 2 (Easy) a further 35.4% — 87.5% combined. Tier 3 (Moderate) applies to 9.6%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 3.0%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Haiti's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 18.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
AI crawlers appear in robots.txt on 18.5% of all Haitian sites — the highest category. SEO audit tools follow at 15.2%, then SEO/search indexing at 14.3%. Archive crawlers are cited on 5.0% of sites; monitoring bots on just 0.3%.
Uniform rules are Haiti's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.9% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
40.8% of all Haitian sites use uniform per-agent rules and 34.7% apply path-level mixing. Mixed AI posture accounts for 2.9% of sites. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.6%; allow-only policies 2.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Haiti's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 8.8% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.2% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 9.1% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 8.3% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 4% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 2.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.7% | 2.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.4% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2.2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.7% | 1% |
GPTBot is named in Disallow rules on 12.3% of all Haitian sites. ClaudeBot (9.2%) and Google-Extended (9.1%) follow closely. ChatGPT-User receives the most explicit Allow rules at 2.9%.
Nine Haitian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Medical Devices | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Biotech | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Crafts | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
Apparel & Fashion, Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Medical Devices, Newspapers, Publishing, Retail, and Textiles & Nonwovens each see 100% of sites naming at least one bot to restrict. Six further sectors sit at 90%.
Haiti's Customer Services and Publishing sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Customer Services | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Public Utility | 71.4% |
| Agriculture | 70% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Import & Export | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Sporting Goods | 70% |
| Sports | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Outsourcing | 66.7% |
| Comics & Animation | 62.5% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 60% |
| Crafts | 60% |
Customer Services and Publishing lead with 80% of sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule. Public Utility follows at 71.4%. Agriculture, Airlines, Import & Export, Photography, Retail, Sporting Goods, Sports, and Telecom each reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Real Estate are Haiti's most demanding sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 60% | 30% | 80% | 60% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 30% | 60% | 0% | 40% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 80% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 60% | 0% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Real Estate share the top mean recommended tier of 2.70, both with a median of 3 (Moderate). Automotive, Jewellery & Luxury, Retail, and Sporting Goods follow at mean 2.50, also with a median of 3.
Seven sectors share Haiti's most accessible floor programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 100% | 70% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 50% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Airlines, Computers & Electronics, Customer Services, Insurance, Music, Non-Profit, and Recruitment & Staffing all record a mean recommended tier of 1.80 — the floor of Haiti's accessible-sector group. All carry a median of Tier 2 (Easy).