Overview
JavaScript is Panama's most common active secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.1% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
WAF covers 93.1% of Panama's 1,097 sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 43.5%, well ahead of CAPTCHA at 23.8% and Antibot at 21.9%. TLS stands at 18.4%; Rate Limiting at 14.1% is the least-adopted defence.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Panama's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.8% |
| JavaScript | 43.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.1% |
| TLS | 18.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14% |
WAF is present on 93.1% of Panamanian domains. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 43.5%, ahead of CAPTCHA at 23.8% and Antibot at 21.9%. TLS stands at 18.4%. Rate Limiting at 14.1% is the least-deployed of the six barrier types.
Most Panamanian sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.6% |
| 1 barrier | 27.9% |
| 2 barriers | 35% |
| 3 barriers | 18.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.9% |
| 5 barriers | 4.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
Two barriers is the modal count at 35.0% of sites. Single-barrier sites represent 27.9%. Sites with no barriers account for 4.6%. Three or more barriers are found on 27.4% of Panama's 1,097 domains.
Panama's sites sit at the Simple-to-Easy access boundary
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
The median recommended retrieval tier is 2, indicating fewer than half of sites are accessible at Tier 1 (plain HTTP). The mean of 1.67 reflects a strong lean toward Tier 1, with the remainder split between Tier 2 JavaScript rendering and higher tiers.
Most Panamanian sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.9% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
48.6% of Panamanian sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple), with a further 39.1% at Tier 2 (Easy). Together they account for 87.7% of all domains. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 9.9%; Tiers 4 and 5 combined total just 2.3%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Panama's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.9% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt on 15.7% of all 1,097 Panamanian sites. SEO audit tools appear at 13.9% — ahead of SEO/search bots at 12.2%. Commercial scrapers are cited on 8.1% of all sites.
Uniform rules are Panama's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
79.4% of Panamanian sites carry a robots.txt file. Of all sites, 42.0% apply uniform per-agent rules with no path mixing. Path-level mixed rules account for 32.3%. Blanket Disallow: / appears on 2.6% of all sites.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Panama's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.2% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 9% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.6% | 0.8% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.1% |
| Bytespider | 7.1% | 0.4% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.9% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 2.4% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.4% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.5% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 0.6% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 11.2% of all Panamanian sites. CCBot follows at 9.0% and ClaudeBot at 8.6%. On the allowlist side, ChatGPT-User carries the widest explicit Allow rate at 2.4%.
Five Panamanian sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Agriculture | 90% |
| Architecture | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Chemicals | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Insurance | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Packaging | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, and Retail each reach a 100% named-bot Disallow rate — every site in those sectors names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Ten further sectors sit at 90%.
Panama's Agriculture sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Agriculture | 80% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Chemicals | 60% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Oil & Gas | 60% |
| Public Policy | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
Agriculture leads Panama's explicit Allow rates at 80% of sites. Architecture, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Science each reach 70%. A further nine sectors have 60% of their sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Furniture and Jewellery are Panama's most demanding sectors for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 60% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 60% | 30% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Furniture and Jewellery & Luxury both carry a mean recommended tier of 2.90 with a sector median of 3 (Moderate). Computer Hardware follows at 2.75. Hospitality and Real Estate both sit at mean 2.70, also at median tier 3.
Sports is Panama's most accessible sector for retrieval
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 80% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Security | 80% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
Six sectors share Panama's lowest mean recommended tier at 1.90: Sports, Beauty & Cosmetics, Import & Export, Manufacturing, Reference, and Security. All bottom-ranked sectors carry a median tier of 2 (Easy).