Overview
Jamaica's sites rely on Rate Limiting as a lighter secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 22.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 18% |
WAF reaches 92.0% of Jamaican sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 42.6%, with Antibot and CAPTCHA near-equal at 22.6% and 22.8%. Rate Limiting, at 14.7%, is the least-deployed barrier.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Jamaica's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 22.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.8% |
| JavaScript | 42.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.7% |
| TLS | 18% |
| Has robots.txt | 78.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13% |
WAF covers 92.0% of sites. JavaScript (42.6%) is the leading secondary barrier. Antibot (22.6%) and CAPTCHA (22.8%) are near-identical. Rate Limiting (14.7%) and TLS (18.0%) round out the picture.
Most Jamaican sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.5% |
| 1 barrier | 27.1% |
| 2 barriers | 34.9% |
| 3 barriers | 18.9% |
| 4 barriers | 9.4% |
| 5 barriers | 3.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
34.9% of Jamaican sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count. Only 5.5% have none. Sites with three or more barriers account for 32.5% of the total, with a small tail reaching all six.
Jamaica's sites sit at the Simple-to-Easy access boundary
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2 (Easy), meaning fewer than half of Jamaican sites are retrievable at Tier 1 (Simple HTTP). The mean of 1.74 reflects a majority of straightforward sites pulling the average down.
Most Jamaican sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 44.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 40.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 (Simple) accounts for 44.7% of sites and Tier 2 (Easy) for 40.7% — together 85.4%. Tier 3 (Moderate) applies to 10.9%. Tiers 4 and 5 cover a combined 3.6% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Jamaica's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 14.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named on 14.6% of all Jamaican sites — the highest category. SEO audit tools follow at 13.2%, then SEO/search indexing at 12.0%. Commercial scrapers appear on 7.6% of sites; monitoring bots on just 0.5%.
Uniform rules are Jamaica's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
Among sites with robots.txt, 39.2% use uniform per-agent rules and 34.3% apply path-level mixing. Allow-only and mixed-AI postures each sit at 2.5%. Blanket Disallow: / covers 2.4% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Jamaica's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.2% | 2% |
| CCBot | 8.5% | 0.9% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 6.9% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5% | 2.6% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.6% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.9% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.8% |
GPTBot carries the highest Disallow rate at 10.2% of all Jamaican sites. CCBot (8.5%) and ClaudeBot (8.2%) follow. ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot each receive the most explicit Allow rules at 2.3%.
Seven Jamaican sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Telecom | 100% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Foreign Language, Retail, Telecom, and Warehousing each show 100% of sites naming at least one bot to restrict. A further eight sectors — including Healthcare and Mass Media — sit at 90%.
Jamaica's Airlines and Publishing sectors lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Public Policy | 66.7% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 60% |
| Food & Beverages | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Insurance | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Music | 60% |
Five sectors share the top Allow rate of 70%: Airlines, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Science. A further ten sectors — including Food & Beverages and IT Services — sit at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Jewellery are Jamaica's most demanding sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Public Policy | 100% | 50% | 50% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 0% | 83.3% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 70% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury share the highest mean recommended tier at 2.70, both with a median of 3 (Moderate). Equipment & Supplies and Real Estate follow at mean 2.60, also with median tier 3.
Six Jamaican sectors share the most accessible floor tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Film | 100% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 80% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 50% | 10% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 100% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 100% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 70% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 90% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
Design, Maritime, Music, Reference, Sporting Goods, and Telecom all record a mean recommended tier of 2.00 — the lowest in Jamaica's sector ranking. All have a median of Tier 2 (Easy).