Overview
JavaScript leads secondary barriers across Marshall Islands sites
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 19.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.5% |
| JavaScript | 34.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.8% |
WAF reaches 92.6% of Marshall Islands sites. JavaScript stands at 34.9% — the highest secondary barrier — followed by CAPTCHA (28.5%), Antibot (19.2%), TLS (18.8%), and Rate Limiting (11.9%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Marshall Islands's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.6% |
| Antibot | 19.2% |
| CAPTCHA | 28.5% |
| JavaScript | 34.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.9% |
| TLS | 18.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 18.5% |
WAF covers 92.6% of Marshall Islands sites. JavaScript (34.9%) is the leading secondary barrier. CAPTCHA (28.5%) is also elevated, followed by Antibot (19.2%), TLS (18.8%), and Rate Limiting (11.9%).
Single-barrier stacks are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 32.8% |
| 2 barriers | 31.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18.8% |
| 4 barriers | 8.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
Sites with exactly one barrier account for 32.8% of Marshall Islands sites. Two-barrier sites follow at 31.6%. No site carries all six barriers, and 4.5% carry none. Sites with three or more account for 31.2%.
Most Marshall Islands sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The recommended browser tier for Marshall Islands sites has a mean of 1.62 and a median of 1 (Simple), with over half of sites (53.4%) accessible at Tier 1 without a browser.
Nearly nine in 10 sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.9% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Tier 1 (Simple) accounts for 53.4% of Marshall Islands sites. Tier 2 (Easy) adds 35.4%. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 8.3%, with Tiers 4 and 5 each below 2%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 19% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.7% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 10.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 10.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 7.6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.7% |
Across all 421 Marshall Islands sites, 19.0% name at least one AI crawler in robots.txt. SEO/search bots appear on 14.7% of sites and SEO audit tools on 14.3%. Social and commercial scrapers follow closely.
Uniform rules are the most common posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 44.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31.1% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply to 44.4% of Marshall Islands sites. Path-level mixed rules cover 31.1%. Sites without a robots.txt file account for approximately 17.8% of all sites.
GPTBot leads AI agent restrictions in Marshall Islands
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 15.2% | 1.9% |
| CCBot | 10.7% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 10.2% | 0.2% |
| Google-Extended | 10% | 1.2% |
| Bytespider | 9.3% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.8% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 8.3% | 1.9% |
| PerplexityBot | 8.1% | 1.7% |
| Applebot-Extended | 6.7% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 5% | 1.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 7.1% | 0.2% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 15.2% of all Marshall Islands sites. CCBot (10.7%) and ClaudeBot (10.2%) follow. ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot lead Allow rules at 1.9% each.
Apparel & Fashion sites all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Distance Learning | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Retail | 90% |
| Travel & Tourism | 90% |
| Sporting Goods | 85.7% |
| Finance | 80% |
| Photography | 80% |
Apparel & Fashion is the sole sector where 100% of Marshall Islands sites name at least one bot to restrict. Automotive, Computer & Video Games, Consumer Electronics, and ten other sectors follow at 85.7–90%.
Marshall Islands's Travel & Tourism sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Travel & Tourism | 80% |
| Software & Dev | 70% |
| Hospitality | 62.5% |
| Consumer Electronics | 60% |
| Ecology & Environment | 60% |
| Publishing | 60% |
| Retail | 60% |
| Airlines | 50% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 50% |
| Finance | 50% |
| General | 50% |
| Human Resources | 50% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Non-Profit | 50% |
| Online Services | 50% |
Travel & Tourism names at least one bot in an Allow rule on 80.0% of its sites. Software & Dev follows at 70.0%, with Hospitality (62.5%) and Consumer Electronics (60.0%) next.
Industry Patterns
Computer Hardware is the hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 50% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Mail & Delivery | 60% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 30% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 50% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 16.7% | 0% | 33.3% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 71.4% | 14.3% | 0% | 14.3% | 0% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 37.5% | 25% | 75% | 25% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 60% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 50% | 60% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 90% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 100% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 37.5% | 50% | 62.5% | 12.5% | 25% | 87.5% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware records the highest median browser tier (3, Moderate) with a mean of 2.30. Mail & Delivery has the highest mean (2.60) at a median of 2, followed by Retail at 2.30.
Airlines is the most accessible sector in Marshall Islands
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 100% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 42.9% | 42.9% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 28.6% | 85.7% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 42.9% | 57.1% | 42.9% | 0% | 14.3% | 100% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 40% | Tier 1 |
| Banking | 80% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Healthcare | 100% | 12.5% | 25% | 12.5% | 0% | 12.5% | 87.5% | 50% | 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 |
| Sports | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 50% | Tier 1 |
| Telecom | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Religion & Belief | 85.7% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 14.3% | 0% | 28.6% | 100% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Airlines | 90% | 0% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
Airlines records the lowest mean browser tier in Marshall Islands at 1.40 (median 1, Simple). Religion & Belief follows at 1.43. Eight sectors cluster at a mean tier of 1.50.