Overview
CAPTCHA leads Cook Islands secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.4% |
| JavaScript | 37.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 14% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
WAF covers 93.1% of Cook Islands sites. CAPTCHA is the strongest secondary barrier at 28.4%, ahead of JavaScript at 37.8%. Antibot (21.3%), TLS (17.2%), and Rate Limiting (14.0%) complete the picture.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and CAPTCHA dominate Cook Islands secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.1% |
| Antibot | 21.3% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.4% |
| JavaScript | 37.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 14% |
| TLS | 17.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 22% |
After WAF at 93.1%, JavaScript is deployed by 37.8% of Cook Islands sites. CAPTCHA follows at 28.4%, then Antibot at 21.3%. TLS (17.2%) and Rate Limiting (14.0%) are the least common secondary barriers.
Two barriers is the most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.8% |
| 1 barrier | 30.2% |
| 2 barriers | 33.4% |
| 3 barriers | 16.7% |
| 4 barriers | 10.3% |
| 5 barriers | 4.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
33.4% of Cook Islands sites deploy exactly two barriers — the most common count. Only 4.8% have no barriers. 31.5% stack three or more, including 4.1% at five barriers and 0.5% at all six.
Most Cook Islands sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Over half of Cook Islands sites are accessible at Tier 1, setting the median at 1. The mean of 1.58 is pulled up by a spread of sites requiring browser rendering or more complex retrieval approaches.
Nearly nine in 10 sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 34.3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7.8% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.4% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
55.6% of Cook Islands sites are accessible at Tier 1. Tier 2 browser rendering captures a further 34.3%, bringing combined coverage to 89.9%. Tiers 3, 4, and 5 each account for small fractions of the remainder.
robots.txt
AI crawlers and SEO audit tools are near-equally named in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 23.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 15.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 22.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 13.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 8.2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 23.6% of Cook Islands sites — the highest bot category. SEO audit tools are close behind at 22.7%. SEO/search indexing (15.1%) and Commercial scrapers (13.5%) follow.
Uniform per-agent rules are the most common posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.1% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 4.1% |
44.4% of Cook Islands sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules apply to 32.3%. Only 15.6% of sites have no robots.txt at all. Blanket Disallow accounts for 4.1% and Mixed AI posture for 3.2%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Cook Islands's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 19% | 1.8% |
| CCBot | 16.5% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 15.1% | 1.1% |
| Google-Extended | 14.9% | 0.7% |
| Bytespider | 10.5% | 0.7% |
| meta-externalagent | 5% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 11.2% | 3.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 13.5% | 2.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 7.6% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 7.3% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 9.6% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 19.0% of Cook Islands sites. CCBot and ClaudeBot are blocked on 16.5% and 15.1% respectively. ChatGPT-User leads explicit Allow entries at 3.2%.
Healthcare, Retail, Sports, and Wellness all block every named bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Healthcare | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Sports | 100% |
| Wellness | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Automotive | 85.7% |
| Education | 80% |
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
Every sampled site in Healthcare, Retail, Sports, and Wellness names at least one bot to restrict. Adult, Apparel & Fashion, Entertainment, General, Mass Media, Newspapers, and Online Services all reach 90%.
Real Estate leads sectors on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Real Estate | 77.8% |
| Consumer Electronics | 71.4% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Automotive | 57.1% |
| Computer Hardware | 57.1% |
| Adult | 50% |
| Airlines | 50% |
| General | 50% |
| Hospitality | 50% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Online Services | 50% |
Real Estate has the highest explicit bot Allow rate at 77.8%. Consumer Electronics follows at 71.4%. Publishing, Retail, and Travel & Tourism each show 70% of their sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule.
Industry Patterns
Food & Beverages and Hospitality are Cook Islands's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 10% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 85.7% | 28.6% | 28.6% | 28.6% | 42.9% | 28.6% | 71.4% | 28.6% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 90% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 0% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 0% | 14.3% | 100% | 42.9% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 60% | Tier 2 |
Food & Beverages records the highest mean recommended tier at 2.50. Hospitality and Human Resources follow at 2.20. All 15 top industries cluster between 1.60 and 2.50 — a relatively wide difficulty spread for a small sample.
Six sectors share the most accessible mean tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 100% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 90% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 83.3% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 83.3% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Consumer Electronics | 85.7% | 0% | 42.9% | 71.4% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 100% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 50% | Tier 1 |
| Computers & Electronics | 100% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 57.1% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Transport & Logistics | 85.7% | 0% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 0% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 90% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 70% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 25% | 25% | 25% | 0% | 25% | 87.5% | 12.5% | Tier 1 |
Nine sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.50 — the lowest in the Cook Islands sample. Transport & Logistics and Computers & Electronics sit at 1.57.