Overview
CAPTCHA is Saint Pierre-Miquelon's most elevated secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96.6% |
| Antibot | 17.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.2% |
| JavaScript | 43.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.2% |
| TLS | 12.9% |
WAF reaches 96.6% across 294 sites — above the global 93.1%. CAPTCHA at 28.2% also exceeds the global 23.1%. JavaScript sits at 43.2%, Antibot at 17.3%, Rate Limiting at 10.2%, and TLS at 12.9%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Saint Pierre-Miquelon's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96.6% |
| Antibot | 17.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.2% |
| JavaScript | 43.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.2% |
| TLS | 12.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 77.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 22.1% |
WAF leads at 96.6% across 294 domains. CAPTCHA reaches 28.2%, above the global 23.1%. JavaScript sits at 43.2%, Antibot at 17.3%, TLS at 12.9%, and Rate Limiting at 10.2%.
Most Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites carry at least one barrier
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2.4% |
| 1 barrier | 34.4% |
| 2 barriers | 33.7% |
| 3 barriers | 17% |
| 4 barriers | 7.1% |
| 5 barriers | 5.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
34.4% of Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites carry one barrier, and 33.7% carry two — nearly equal. Zero-barrier sites reach 2.4%, while 29.5% of sites stack three or more. No site deploys all six barriers.
Most Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
Browser median tier is 1, meaning more than half of the 294 sites are reachable at plain HTTP. Mean is 1.51 — the lowest in this batch — and no site reaches Tier 5.
Most Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 5.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
57.5% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 35.4% at Tier 2 (Easy), covering 92.9% combined. Tier 3 accounts for 5.4%, Tier 4 for 1.7%, and Tier 5 for 0.0%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Saint Pierre-Miquelon's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 23.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 16.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 15.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 14.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.7% |
23.5% of all Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites name at least one AI crawler in a robots.txt rule — well ahead of any other category. SEO audit tools follow at 16.3%, commercial scrapers at 15.6%, and social/content scrapers at 14.6%.
Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites show elevated blanket-block and mixed AI postures
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 37.8% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.7% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 5.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 5.4% |
37.8% of sites use uniform per-agent rules and 32.7% use path-level mixed rules. 5.4% carry a blanket Disallow: / and 5.1% hold a mixed AI posture — both notably high. 22.8% have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Saint Pierre-Miquelon's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 17.7% | 3.1% |
| CCBot | 13.9% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 16% | 2% |
| Google-Extended | 14.3% | 1.4% |
| Bytespider | 12.9% | 1% |
| meta-externalagent | 7.1% | 1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 8.5% | 3.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 12.2% | 3.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 10.9% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.4% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 8.8% | 1.7% |
GPTBot appears in Disallow rules on 17.7% of all Saint Pierre-Miquelon sites — the highest in this batch. ClaudeBot follows at 16.0%, Google-Extended at 14.3%, and CCBot at 13.9%. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rules at 3.7%.
Six Saint Pierre-Miquelon sectors all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| General | 100% |
| Mass Media | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Online Services | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Adult | 80% |
| Automotive | 80% |
| Computer & Video Games | 80% |
| Entertainment | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Telecom | 75% |
| Wellness | 75% |
| Software & Dev | 70% |
Apparel & Fashion, General, Mass Media, Newspapers, Online Services, and Retail all reach 100% — every site names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Publishing follows at 90%, with Adult, Automotive, Computer & Video Games, Entertainment, and Travel & Tourism each at 80%. Note: sector n=10 throughout.
Saint Pierre-Miquelon's top sectors share the highest bot allow rate
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Consumer Electronics | 60% |
| General | 60% |
| Mass Media | 60% |
| Metals & Mining | 60% |
| Newspapers | 60% |
| Online Services | 60% |
| Publishing | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Entertainment | 50% |
| Music | 50% |
| Sports | 50% |
| Telecom | 50% |
| Airlines | 44.4% |
Consumer Electronics, General, Mass Media, Metals & Mining, Newspapers, Online Services, Publishing, Retail, and Software & Dev each reach 60% for explicit bot Allow rules — the ceiling for this territory. Ten more sectors cluster at 44–50%.
Industry Patterns
Automotive, Consumer Electronics, and Retail are Saint Pierre-Miquelon's most demanding sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 90% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 0% | 33.3% | 50% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 83.3% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 80% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 66.7% | 11.1% | 0% | 88.9% | 22.2% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 90% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Metals & Mining | 100% | 20% | 60% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Metals & Mining, and Retail all share the highest mean tier — the ceiling for this territory. Most other sectors in the list fall to an Easy median with means ranging 1.50–1.90. Note: several sectors have small sub-samples (n=5–9).
Insurance and Sporting Goods are Saint Pierre-Miquelon's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Telecom | 100% | 0% | 0% | 62.5% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 87.5% | 25% | Tier 1 |
| IT Services | 90% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 90% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 50% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 70% | Tier 1 |
| Wellness | 100% | 25% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 25% | 12.5% | 75% | 25% | Tier 1 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Construction | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Insurance | 87.5% | 37.5% | 12.5% | 50% | 12.5% | 0% | 25% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
Insurance and Sporting Goods share the lowest mean tier at 1.00 — the floor for Saint Pierre-Miquelon. Apparel & Fashion and Construction cluster at 1.20. Multiple bottom sectors show Tier 1 medians, reflecting the territory's lighter overall difficulty profile.