Overview
WAF is universal — every Niue site deploys it
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 100% |
| Antibot | 20.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 17.6% |
| JavaScript | 29.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 8.8% |
| TLS | 8.8% |
WAF reaches 100% across all 34 Niue sites. JavaScript follows at 29.4%, then Antibot at 20.6% and CAPTCHA at 17.6%. Rate Limiting and TLS are tied at the lowest rate of 8.8% each.
Barrier Landscape
Rate Limiting and TLS are tied at the floor of secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 100% |
| Antibot | 20.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 17.6% |
| JavaScript | 29.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 8.8% |
| TLS | 8.8% |
| Has robots.txt | 73.5% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 17.6% |
WAF covers every site at 100%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript leads at 29.4%, followed by Antibot (20.6%), CAPTCHA (17.6%), and Rate Limiting and TLS, which are equal at 8.8%.
Two-barrier sites are the clear modal outcome
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 0% |
| 1 barrier | 32.4% |
| 2 barriers | 58.8% |
| 3 barriers | 0% |
| 4 barriers | 8.8% |
| 5 barriers | 0% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
58.8% of Niue sites carry exactly two barriers — an unusually dominant modal count. One-barrier sites account for 32.4% and four-barrier sites for 8.8%. No sites have zero, three, five, or six barriers.
Almost all Niue sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.1 |
The median recommended tier is 1 and the mean is 1.12. 88.2% of sites sit at Tier 1, with the remaining 11.8% at Tier 2. No sites require Tier 3, 4, or 5 retrieval.
Every Niue site is Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 88.2% |
| 2 - Easy | 11.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 0% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Tier 1 accounts for 88.2% of Niue sites and Tier 2 for the remaining 11.8%. Tiers 3, 4, and 5 are entirely unoccupied, making Niue's tier distribution the most compressed in this sample.
robots.txt
Social scrapers lead bot category mentions in Niue
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 17.6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 17.6% |
| SEO audit tools | 17.6% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 20.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 0% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
Social/content scrapers are named in 20.6% of all Niue sites — the highest rate across categories. AI crawlers, SEO/search indexing, and SEO audit tools are each exactly tied at 17.6%. Archive and monitoring bots receive no mentions.
Uniform rules dominate Niue robots.txt postures
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 52.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 20.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 0% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 0% |
52.9% of sites apply uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules account for 20.6%. No sites use blanket Disallow: /, Allow-only posture, or mixed AI posture — indicating a relatively simple rules landscape across Niue.
Google-Extended leads AI agent blocks in Niue
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 8.8% | — |
| CCBot | 8.8% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 0% | — |
| Google-Extended | 17.6% | — |
| Bytespider | 8.8% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 0% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 0% | — |
| PerplexityBot | 0% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 0% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 0% | — |
| anthropic-ai | 8.8% | — |
Google-Extended carries a Disallow rule on 17.6% of all sites — double the rate of GPTBot, CCBot, Bytespider, and anthropic-ai, each at 8.8%. No agent receives an explicit Allow rule on any Niue site.
Just two Niue sectors have any sites that name bots to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Online Services | 57.1% |
| General | 50% |
Online Services has 57.1% of its sites naming at least one bot in a Disallow rule; General follows at 50.0%. No other sector in Niue's sample has sufficient coverage to appear in this ranking.
Just two Niue sectors have any sites that explicitly allow bots
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Online Services | 42.9% |
| General | 30% |
Online Services names at least one bot in an Allow rule on 42.9% of its sites; General follows at 30.0%. These are the only two sectors with sufficient site counts for this ranking.
Industry Patterns
Online Services leads difficulty among the two qualifying sectors
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online Services | 100% | 28.6% | 28.6% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 14.3% | 71.4% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
With a sample of 34 sites, only Online Services (n=7, mean tier 1.14) and General (n=10, mean tier 1.10) appear in this ranking. Both sit at a median tier of 1 — the most accessible retrieval level.
No industry breakdown available at this sample size
Insufficient sites across industries to support a reliable heatmap at this sample size.