Overview
JavaScript is Sint Maarten's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 21.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.5% |
| JavaScript | 44.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.8% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
WAF covers 94.5% of Sint Maarten sites. JavaScript reaches 44.2%, CAPTCHA 23.5%, Antibot 21.1%, Rate Limiting 14.8%, and TLS 16.5% across Sint Maarten's 852 domains.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript tops Sint Maarten's active secondary defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.5% |
| Antibot | 21.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.5% |
| JavaScript | 44.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 14.8% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.5% |
WAF leads at 94.5% across 852 domains. JavaScript follows at 44.2%, then CAPTCHA at 23.5%, Antibot at 21.1%, TLS at 16.5%, and Rate Limiting at 14.8%.
Most Sint Maarten sites carry at least two barriers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.2% |
| 1 barrier | 29.6% |
| 2 barriers | 35.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18.7% |
| 4 barriers | 7.4% |
| 5 barriers | 5.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.2% |
35.6% of Sint Maarten sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count. Single-barrier sites account for 29.6%. Zero-barrier sites reach 3.2%, while 31.7% of sites stack three or more.
Most Sint Maarten sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Browser median tier is 1, meaning more than half of Sint Maarten's 852 sites resolve at plain HTTP. Mean is 1.63, with harder sites in the tail.
Most Sint Maarten sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.8% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.7% |
52.8% of sites sit at Tier 1 (Simple) and 35.1% at Tier 2 (Easy), covering 87.9% combined. Tier 3 reaches 9.3%, Tier 4 accounts for 2.1%, and Tier 5 for 0.7%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers top Sint Maarten's robots.txt bot categories
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.6% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.6% |
17.3% of all Sint Maarten sites name at least one AI crawler in a robots.txt rule — the top category. SEO audit tools follow at 14.2%, SEO/search indexing at 14.0%, and commercial scrapers at 7.6%.
Uniform rules are Sint Maarten's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 37.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.4% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
40.6% of all Sint Maarten sites use uniform per-agent rules, and 37.8% use path-level mixed rules. 2.8% carry a blanket Disallow: /, and 3.1% hold a mixed AI posture. 17.3% have no robots.txt.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Sint Maarten's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.2% | 2.7% |
| CCBot | 9.3% | 1.4% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.6% | 1.5% |
| Google-Extended | 8.5% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 7.4% | 0.9% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.8% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.6% | 3.1% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.2% | 2.6% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.2% | 0.7% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 5% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.3% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is named in Disallow rules on 12.2% of all Sint Maarten sites. ClaudeBot follows at 9.6%, CCBot at 9.3%, and Google-Extended at 8.5%. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rules at 3.1%.
Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Vet sites all name at least one bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Veterinary | 100% |
| Airlines | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Photography | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Sports | 90% |
Every site in Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Veterinary names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Airlines, Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, General, Jewellery & Luxury, and six more sit at 90%.
Sint Maarten's Retail sector leads in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Retail | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Design | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 66.7% |
| Chemicals | 66.7% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 60% |
| Consulting | 60% |
| Human Resources | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 60% |
Retail reaches 80% for explicit bot Allow rules. Airlines, Design, Non-Profit, Photography, Publishing, and Real Estate each follow at 70%, with Ceramics & Pottery and Chemicals at 66.7%.
Industry Patterns
Apparel and Fashion is Sint Maarten's most demanding sector for crawlers
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 0% | 70% | 20% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 80% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 50% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 60% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Apparel & Fashion tops Sint Maarten's difficulty ranking with a mean recommended tier of 2.60 and a Tier 3 median. Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury share a 2.60 mean at Tier 2 median. Retail and, below it, Real Estate and Transport & Logistics follow.
Customer Services and Construction are Sint Maarten's most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 100% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 85.7% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 14.3% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Customer Services and Construction share the lowest mean tier at 1.70 — the floor for Sint Maarten's bottom-15 sectors. Travel & Tourism, Telecom, and Airlines sit close at 1.80.