Overview
JavaScript is Saint Kitts's most common active secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.7% |
| Antibot | 22.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.3% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 14% |
| TLS | 16.9% |
WAF covers 94.7% of Saint Kitts and Nevis sites. JavaScript (41.1%) is the strongest secondary barrier, followed by CAPTCHA (24.3%), antibot (22.6%), rate limiting (14.0%), and TLS (16.9%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Saint Kitts's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.7% |
| Antibot | 22.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.3% |
| JavaScript | 41.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 14% |
| TLS | 16.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.5% |
WAF reaches 94.7% of sites. Among the five secondary barriers, JavaScript (41.1%) has the highest adoption, followed by CAPTCHA (24.3%), antibot (22.6%), TLS (16.9%), and rate limiting (14.0%).
Most Saint Kitts sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3% |
| 1 barrier | 31.4% |
| 2 barriers | 33.7% |
| 3 barriers | 18.6% |
| 4 barriers | 8.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.7% |
33.7% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 31.4%. Only 3.0% have no barrier at all, while 31.9% stack three or more.
Most Saint Kitts sites are Simple or Easy to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than half of sites are retrievable at plain HTTP. The mean of 1.67 reflects a distribution still weighted toward Tier 1, with Tier 2 pulling the central value over.
Most Saint Kitts sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.4% |
49.1% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 38.6% at Tier 2 (Easy), together reaching 87.7%. Tier 3 accounts for 8.9%, while Tiers 4 and 5 cover 3.0% and 0.4% respectively.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Saint Kitts's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.1% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.9% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear in the robots.txt of 16.1% of all Saint Kitts and Nevis sites. SEO/search indexing (12.9%) and SEO audit tools (12.6%) follow. Commercial scrapers are named by 8.5%.
Uniform rules are Saint Kitts's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.2% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.4% |
40.2% of all Saint Kitts and Nevis sites use uniform per-agent rules and 35.0% use path-level mixed rules. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 3.4%, mixed AI posture to 3.1%, and allow-only to 2.8%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Saint Kitts's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.6% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 9.1% | 1.2% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.3% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.5% | 0.9% |
| Bytespider | 7.5% | 0.9% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.4% | 0.5% |
| ChatGPT-User | 7.5% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 8.1% | 2.3% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.9% | 0.7% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 5% | 2.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 6.1% | 0.7% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 12.6% of all sites. ClaudeBot (9.3%) and CCBot (9.1%) follow. ChatGPT-User leads allow rules at 2.7%, with OAI-SearchBot at 2.6%.
Six Saint Kitts sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Healthcare | 100% |
| Market Research | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Sports | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
| Wellness | 90% |
Design, Healthcare, Market Research, Newspapers, Publishing, and Retail all record 100% named-bot Disallow rates. Nine further sectors sit at 90%, including Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, and Telecom.
Saint Kitts's Public Utility and Publishing sectors lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Public Utility | 80% |
| Publishing | 80% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Import & Export | 66.7% |
| Market Research | 66.7% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Gambling | 60% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Telecom | 60% |
| Wellness | 60% |
| Printing | 55.6% |
Public Utility and Publishing lead the explicit bot allow table at 80% each. Photography, Retail, and Travel & Tourism follow at 70%. Import & Export and Market Research record 66.7%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is Saint Kitts and Nevis's hardest sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90.9% | 36.4% | 18.2% | 63.6% | 27.3% | 9.1% | 63.6% | 9.1% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Investment | 100% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality leads with a mean recommended tier of 2.90, followed by Computer Hardware (2.65) and Equipment & Supplies (2.50). With n=10 per sector, tier means step in 10% increments, so these represent a clear top three.
Healthcare, Banking, and Distance Learning are Saint Kitts's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 100% | 50% | 40% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 90% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Foreign Language | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 100% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
Healthcare, Banking, and Distance Learning all record the lowest mean recommended tier at 1.70 — the floor in this dataset. At n=10 per sector, rankings at this level carry limited precision.