Overview
JavaScript leads secondary barriers in Kiribati
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 20.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.5% |
| JavaScript | 37.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 7.3% |
| TLS | 14.5% |
WAF reaches 93.0% of Kiribati sites. CAPTCHA (23.5%) and Antibot (20.9%) are the next most common barriers. Rate Limiting at 7.3% is the lowest secondary barrier, with TLS at 14.5% and JavaScript at 37.5%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript leads secondary barriers in Kiribati
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 20.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.5% |
| JavaScript | 37.5% |
| Rate Limiting | 7.3% |
| TLS | 14.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.7% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 17.7% |
WAF covers 93.0% of Kiribati sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (37.5%) is most common, followed by CAPTCHA (23.5%), Antibot (20.9%), TLS (14.5%), and Rate Limiting (7.3%).
Two-barrier sites are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 33.1% |
| 2 barriers | 33.7% |
| 3 barriers | 19.2% |
| 4 barriers | 6.4% |
| 5 barriers | 2.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
Sites with exactly two barriers account for 33.7% of Kiribati sites — the modal count. Single-barrier sites follow at 33.1%. No sites carry all six barriers, and 4.9% carry none.
More than half of Kiribati sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.5 |
The recommended browser tier for Kiribati sites has a mean of 1.53 and a median of 1 (Simple), indicating the majority of sites can be retrieved without a browser.
Nine in 10 or more sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 57% |
| 2 - Easy | 36% |
| 3 - Moderate | 4.4% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 (Simple) accounts for 57.0% of Kiribati sites. Tier 2 (Easy) covers a further 36.0%. Tier 3 (Moderate) adds 4.4%, with Tiers 4 and 5 each below 3%.
robots.txt
SEO audit tools edge ahead of AI crawlers in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 18% |
| Commercial scrapers | 10.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 8.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.3% |
Across all 344 Kiribati sites, 18.0% name at least one SEO audit tool in robots.txt rules, with AI crawlers at 17.7% and SEO/search bots at 14.8%. Commercial scrapers appear on 10.5% of sites.
Blanket Disallow is more common than path-mixed rules in Kiribati
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 40.1% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 34% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 4.7% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 40.1% of Kiribati sites; path-level mixed rules 34.0%. Blanket Disallow: / applies to 4.7% of sites — the highest of the five territories surveyed here.
GPTBot and ClaudeBot are the most blocked AI agents
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 15.4% | 1.5% |
| CCBot | 11.9% | 0.6% |
| ClaudeBot | 13.7% | 0.9% |
| Google-Extended | 12.2% | 0.6% |
| Bytespider | 9.6% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 5.8% | 0.6% |
| ChatGPT-User | 9.3% | 1.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 10.2% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 7% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.4% | 0.6% |
| anthropic-ai | 7.3% | 0.6% |
GPTBot appears in a Disallow rule on 15.4% of all Kiribati sites. ClaudeBot (13.7%) and Google-Extended (12.2%) follow. PerplexityBot leads Allow rules at 1.7%.
Kiribati ecology & environment all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ecology & Environment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Retail | 90% |
| Computer Hardware | 85.7% |
| Airlines | 80% |
| Distance Learning | 80% |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% |
| Foreign Language | 77.8% |
Every Ecology & Environment and Newspapers site in Kiribati names at least one bot to restrict. Consumer Electronics, Entertainment, General, Mass Media, Online Services, Publishing, and Retail all follow at 90%.
Kiribati's Ecology & Environment sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ecology & Environment | 83.3% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Consumer Electronics | 50% |
| Education | 50% |
| General | 50% |
| Healthcare | 50% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Non-Profit | 50% |
| Online Services | 50% |
| Foreign Language | 44.4% |
| Computer Hardware | 42.9% |
Ecology & Environment names at least one bot in an Allow rule on 83.3% of sites. Airlines, Publishing, and Retail follow at 70.0%. Software & Dev and Travel & Tourism each reach 60.0%.
Industry Patterns
Mail & Delivery is Kiribati's hardest sector to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 100% | 60% | 60% | 60% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 90% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 71.4% | 57.1% | 57.1% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 80% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 100% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 0% | 11.1% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 77.8% | 22.2% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 10% | 40% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Software & Dev | 70% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Mail & Delivery and Transport & Logistics each record a mean browser tier of 2.40 (median 2, Easy) — the highest of any sector in Kiribati. Retail follows at a mean of 2.00.
Government and Entertainment are the most accessible sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare | 100% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 0% | 0% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Wellness | 83.3% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 12.5% | 37.5% | 75% | 12.5% | 0% | 75% | 12.5% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Automotive | 100% | 12.5% | 12.5% | 37.5% | 25% | 12.5% | 75% | 12.5% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Import & Export | 85.7% | 28.6% | 0% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 42.9% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Computer & Video Games | 66.7% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 0% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 1 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 50% | 0% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 16.7% | Tier 1 |
| IT Services | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 33.3% | 55.6% | 22.2% | 11.1% | 33.3% | 77.8% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 90% | 0% | 40% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 100% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 1 |
Government and Entertainment each record a mean browser tier of 1.20 (median 1, Simple) — the lowest of any sector surveyed in Kiribati. IT Services and Music are next at 1.30.