Overview
JavaScript leads Nicaragua's secondary barriers by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 20.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.1% |
| JavaScript | 42.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.4% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
WAF is deployed on 93.9% of Nicaragua's 1,075 sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript stands at 42.3% and CAPTCHA at 22.1%. Rate Limiting at 14.4% is Nicaragua's highest rate among the three lower-adoption barriers. Antibot and TLS sit at 20.3% and 17.8%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Nicaragua's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.9% |
| Antibot | 20.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.1% |
| JavaScript | 42.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.4% |
| TLS | 17.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.8% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15% |
WAF covers 93.9% of Nicaraguan domains. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 42.3%. CAPTCHA (22.1%) and Antibot (20.3%) are in the same band. Rate Limiting at 14.4% is higher than TLS (17.8%) — notable as the least-adopted barrier category.
Most Nicaraguan sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 30.2% |
| 2 barriers | 34% |
| 3 barriers | 18.9% |
| 4 barriers | 9% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
Two barriers is the most common count at 34.0% of sites. Single-barrier sites represent 30.2%. Only 4.0% of sites deploy no barriers. Three or more barriers appear on 31.8% of Nicaragua's 1,075 domains — one of the higher three-plus rates in this batch.
Nicaragua's sites sit comfortably in the Easy access band
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, indicating fewer than half of sites resolve at Tier 1 (plain HTTP). The mean of 1.69 reflects a lean toward Tier 1 retrieval. 47.6% of sites are at Tier 1 and 39.5% at Tier 2, accounting for 87.1% of all domains.
Most Nicaraguan sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.5% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
47.6% of Nicaraguan sites are at Tier 1 (Simple) and 39.5% at Tier 2 (Easy), together totalling 87.1% of all domains. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 9.8%. Tiers 4 and 5 together account for 3.1% of sites, including 0.7% at the Advanced tier.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Nicaragua's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.4% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt on 16.6% of all 1,075 Nicaraguan sites. SEO audit tools follow at 13.5% and SEO/search bots at 12.4%. Commercial scrapers appear on 7.8% of all sites; archive crawlers on 4.7%.
Uniform rules are Nicaragua's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
80.8% of Nicaraguan sites publish a robots.txt file. Path-level mixed rules for the same agent — 35.7% of all sites — are the highest rate in this country batch. Uniform per-agent rules cover 39.8%, the lowest uniform rate in the batch.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Nicaragua's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.8% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 9.4% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.8% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.4% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 7% | 0.3% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.1% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.6% | 2% |
| PerplexityBot | 6% | 1.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.7% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.4% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.7% | 0.7% |
GPTBot carries Disallow rules on 11.8% of all Nicaraguan sites. CCBot follows at 9.4% — the highest CCBot block rate in this batch. ClaudeBot is blocked on 8.8% of sites. ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot each lead Allow rates at 2.0%.
Nine Nicaraguan sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Farms & Ranches | 100% |
| Foreign Language | 100% |
| Insurance | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Telecom | 100% |
| Accounting & Auditing | 90% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Farms & Ranches, Foreign Language, Insurance, Newspapers, Retail, and Telecom each reach 100% named-bot Disallow rate. Five further sectors sit at 90%, including Accounting & Auditing and Beauty & Cosmetics.
Nicaragua's Public Policy sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Public Policy | 83.3% |
| Farms & Ranches | 80% |
| Recreational Facilities | 80% |
| Biotech | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Social & Charitable | 70% |
| Writing & Editing | 70% |
| Public Relations | 66.7% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
Public Policy has 83.3% of its sites naming at least one bot in an explicit Allow rule — the highest in Nicaragua. Farms & Ranches and Recreational Facilities follow at 80%. Biotech, Photography, Publishing, Retail, Science, Social & Charitable, and Writing & Editing each reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Jewellery are Nicaragua's most demanding sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 100% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 90% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 60% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 90% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury both record a mean recommended tier of 2.80 with a sector median of 3 (Moderate). Furniture and Real Estate follow at mean 2.70, also at median 3. Computer Hardware and Retail share a mean of 2.50; Medical Devices follows at 2.40, all with a median of Moderate.
Sports is among Nicaragua's most accessible sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Military | 50% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 50% | 0% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Sports records Nicaragua's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.90, shared with Restaurants, Military, Crafts, and Food & Beverages. All carry a median tier of 2 (Easy). Military is a notable entry: only 50% WAF coverage and 30% robots.txt presence.