Overview
CAPTCHA is the most-deployed secondary barrier in New Caledonia
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 18.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 36.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.3% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
WAF reaches 93.0% of New Caledonia sites. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript (36.9%) is most common, followed by CAPTCHA (25.3%), Antibot (18.9%), TLS (18.2%), and Rate Limiting (10.3%).
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and CAPTCHA are the top secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 18.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 25.3% |
| JavaScript | 36.9% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.3% |
| TLS | 18.2% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.9% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15% |
WAF covers 93.0% of New Caledonia sites. JavaScript (36.9%) is the leading secondary barrier, followed by CAPTCHA (25.3%), Antibot (18.9%), TLS (18.2%), and Rate Limiting (10.3%).
Single-barrier sites are most common in New Caledonia
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.5% |
| 1 barrier | 34.2% |
| 2 barriers | 33.2% |
| 3 barriers | 15.4% |
| 4 barriers | 8.1% |
| 5 barriers | 4.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
Sites carrying exactly one barrier account for 34.2% of New Caledonia sites — the modal count. Two-barrier sites add 33.2%. Three or more barriers appear on 27.9% of sites, and 4.5% carry none.
Most New Caledonia sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The recommended browser tier for New Caledonia sites has a mean of 1.57 and a median of 1 (Simple), with 54.5% of sites accessible at Tier 1 without requiring a browser.
Nearly nine in 10 sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 54.5% |
| 2 - Easy | 35% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.2% |
Tier 1 (Simple) accounts for 54.5% of sites; Tier 2 (Easy) adds 35.0%. Tier 3 (Moderate) covers 9.2%, with Tiers 4 and 5 accounting for a combined 1.3%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-cited bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.2% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.1% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.7% |
Across all 894 New Caledonia sites, 17.4% name at least one AI crawler in robots.txt rules. SEO audit tools appear on 15.1% of sites, SEO/search bots on 13.2%, and social scrapers on 6.7%.
Uniform and path-mixed postures are nearly equal
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.6% |
Uniform per-agent rules apply to 39.9% of New Caledonia sites; path-level mixed rules follow closely at 36.0%. Approximately 19.1% of sites carry no robots.txt file.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in New Caledonia's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.3% | 2.2% |
| CCBot | 8.1% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 8.7% | 1.6% |
| Bytespider | 7.3% | 0.6% |
| meta-externalagent | 3.8% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6% | 3.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.3% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 3.6% | 2.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.4% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is named in a Disallow rule on 12.3% of all New Caledonia sites. Google-Extended (8.7%) and ClaudeBot (8.4%) follow. ChatGPT-User leads Allow rules at 3.2%, ahead of OAI-SearchBot at 2.9%.
Five sectors unanimously name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Wholesalers | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Food & Beverages | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Manufacturing | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Oil & Gas | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Retail, and Wholesalers each show 100% of their sites naming at least one bot to restrict. Adult, Automotive, Beauty & Cosmetics, and seven further sectors follow at 90%.
Market Research, Retail, and Sports lead on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Sports | 80% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Computer Hardware | 70% |
| Consulting | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Furniture | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
Market Research, Retail, and Sports each record 80.0% of their sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule. Airlines, Computer Hardware, Consulting, Oil & Gas, Photography, Publishing, Recruitment & Staffing, and Science each reach 70.0%.
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 | 90% | 0% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 40% | 100% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 0% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 80% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 80% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Computer Hardware records a mean browser tier of 2.70 (median 3, Moderate) — the highest in New Caledonia. Automotive and Hospitality follow at 2.30, both with a median of 2. Fourteen of the top 15 sectors sit at median 2.
Computer & Video Games is New Caledonia's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banking | 100% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Construction | 80% | 30% | 30% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 100% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 40% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 90% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 40% | 70% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 90% | 20% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Advertising & Mktg and Computer & Video Games share the lowest mean browser tier in New Caledonia at 1.70 (median 2, Easy). Adult also records 1.70. Airlines, Music, Publishing, Science, and Travel & Tourism sit at 1.80.