Overview
JavaScript leads Fiji's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.4% |
| Antibot | 20% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.6% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 17% |
WAF reaches 92.4% across Fiji. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript is the most widely deployed at 39.6%. CAPTCHA (24.6%), Antibot (20.0%), TLS (17.0%), and Rate Limiting (12.5%) follow in descending order.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Fiji's leading secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.4% |
| Antibot | 20% |
| CAPTCHA | 24.6% |
| JavaScript | 39.6% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.5% |
| TLS | 17% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.6% |
After WAF at 92.4%, JavaScript is deployed by 39.6% of Fiji sites. CAPTCHA (24.6%) and Antibot (20.0%) follow. TLS (17.0%) and Rate Limiting (12.5%) are the least common secondary measures.
Two barriers is the most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.6% |
| 1 barrier | 32.4% |
| 2 barriers | 33.8% |
| 3 barriers | 18.6% |
| 4 barriers | 7.9% |
| 5 barriers | 3.4% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
33.8% of Fiji sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count. Only 3.6% have no barriers. 30.2% stack three or more, with 3.4% at five barriers and 0.3% deploying all six.
Most Fiji sites are Easy to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 2, meaning fewer than 50% of Fiji sites are accessible with basic HTTP retrieval alone. The mean of 1.65 reflects a distribution weighted toward Tiers 1 and 2.
Nearly nine in 10 Fiji sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 49.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 39.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.8% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
49.3% of Fiji sites are accessible at Tier 1 — just under half. Tier 2 browser rendering captures a further 39.4%, bringing combined coverage to 88.7%. The remaining 11.4% span Tiers 3, 4, and 5.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-named bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.3% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
16.6% of all Fiji sites name at least one AI crawler in their robots.txt. SEO audit tools (13.6%) and SEO/search indexing (12.3%) follow. Commercial scrapers are mentioned by 7.9% and Social/content scrapers by 6.7%.
Uniform rules are Fiji's most common robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 35.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
39.3% of Fiji sites use uniform per-agent rules and 35.1% apply path-level mixed rules — a narrower gap than in many markets. Sites with no robots.txt represent 20.1% of the sample. Mixed AI posture accounts for 3.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Fiji's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 3.2% |
| CCBot | 8.6% | 1.4% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.2% | 2.1% |
| Google-Extended | 9.3% | 2.7% |
| Bytespider | 7.3% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.2% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.8% | 3.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.7% | 3.2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.1% | 0.6% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.4% | 1.4% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 12.3% of all Fiji sites. GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, and PerplexityBot are each named in an explicit Allow rule on 3.2% of sites — the joint-highest allow rate.
Biotech, Chemicals, Design, and Retail all block every named bot
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Biotech | 100% |
| Chemicals | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consulting | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Every sampled site in Biotech, Chemicals, Design, and Retail names at least one bot to restrict. Adult, Computer & Video Games, Consulting, Entertainment, Foreign Language, and five further industries all reach 90%.
Real Estate leads sectors on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Real Estate | 90% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Biotech | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Public Utility | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Training & Cert. | 70% |
| Automotive | 60% |
| Consulting | 60% |
| Education | 60% |
| Foreign Language | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
Real Estate has the highest explicit bot Allow rate at 90% — 20 percentage points above the next group. Airlines, Architecture, Biotech, Investment, Photography, Public Utility, Publishing, Retail, and Training & Certification all show 70%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 70% | 60% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 70% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality records both the highest mean tier (2.70) and the only tier-3 median alongside Computer Hardware (2.40). These two industries sit noticeably above the rest of the top 15, which cluster between 2.00 and 2.60.
Four sectors share Fiji's most accessible mean tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesalers | 90% | 30% | 40% | 80% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 60% | 80% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 100% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 50% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 90% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Military | 60% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Museums | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Crafts, Finance, Military, and Museums all record a mean tier of 1.80 — the lowest in Fiji's bottom-15 group. The remaining eleven industries cluster between 1.90 and 2.00, a tight band near the accessible end of the scale.