Overview
CAPTCHA and Antibot are nearly tied among secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 22.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 39.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
WAF covers 94.0% of sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 39.1%. CAPTCHA (22.4%) and Antibot (22.1%) are almost equal — an unusually narrow gap between two barriers that typically differ by several points. TLS follows at 16.5% and Rate Limiting at 11.0%.
Barrier Landscape
CAPTCHA and Antibot are within a fraction of each other
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 22.1% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 39.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 11% |
| TLS | 16.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.2% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 16% |
WAF dominates at 94.0%. JavaScript follows at 39.1%. CAPTCHA (22.4%) and Antibot (22.1%) sit almost level. TLS (16.5%) and Rate Limiting (11.0%) trail. The CAPTCHA–Antibot near-parity is the most distinctive feature of this secondary barrier profile.
Two-barrier and one-barrier sites are essentially equal
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.6% |
| 1 barrier | 33.5% |
| 2 barriers | 33.8% |
| 3 barriers | 16.5% |
| 4 barriers | 9% |
| 5 barriers | 3% |
| 6 barriers | 0.6% |
Two-barrier sites are the modal category at 33.8%, marginally ahead of one-barrier sites at 33.5%. Zero-barrier sites account for 3.6%. Sites carrying three or more barriers make up 29.1% of the total.
Most French Polynesia sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
The median recommended tier is 1 and the mean is 1.62. Tier 1 accounts for 53.6% of sites, giving the majority needed to place the median at the simplest retrieval level. Tier 2 adds 34.2%.
Nearly nine in 10 sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.6% |
| 2 - Easy | 34.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.9% |
Tier 1 holds 53.6% of sites and Tier 2 a further 34.2%, combining for 87.8%. Tier 3 accounts for 9.7%. Tiers 4 and 5 together add 2.6%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead bot category mentions in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 18.3% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.8% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 6.5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 6.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.8% |
AI crawlers are named in 18.3% of all French Polynesia sites — clearly ahead of SEO audit tools at 15.7% and SEO/search indexing at 14.8%. Commercial scrapers and social/content scrapers each appear at 7.5% and 6.5% respectively.
Path-mixed rules nearly match uniform rules in French Polynesia
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 39.6% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.8% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.8% |
Uniform per-agent rules cover 39.6% of sites and path-level mixed rules 36.5% — the two postures are closer than typical. Mixed AI posture applies to 3.8%, blanket Disallow: / to 2.8%, and Allow-only rules to 2.0%.
ChatGPT-User leads Allow mentions — highest of any agent
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.2% | 3% |
| CCBot | 10.1% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 9.2% | 1.9% |
| Google-Extended | 9.6% | 1.9% |
| Bytespider | 8.4% | 0.8% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.2% | 0.4% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.7% | 3.8% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.2% | 3.1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.5% | 0.8% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.6% | 2.9% |
| anthropic-ai | 5.2% | 1.3% |
GPTBot carries the highest Disallow rate at 12.2%, followed by Google-Extended (9.6%) and CCBot (10.1%). On the allow side, ChatGPT-User tops the ranking at 3.8%, ahead of GPTBot (3.0%) and OAI-SearchBot (2.9%).
Seven sectors unanimously name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Publishing | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Wholesalers | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% |
| Banking | 90% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Ecology & Environment | 90% |
| Foreign Language | 90% |
| General | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Publishing, Retail, and Wholesalers all reach 100% — every site in each sector names at least one bot in a Disallow rule. A further eight sectors sit at 90%.
Market Research and Consulting lead on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Market Research | 85.7% |
| Consulting | 83.3% |
| Museums | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Computer Hardware | 70% |
| Foreign Language | 70% |
| Furniture | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Real Estate | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Wholesalers | 70% |
| Import & Export | 66.7% |
| Airlines | 60% |
Market Research tops the explicit Allow ranking at 85.7% and Consulting at 83.3% — both ahead of Museums at 80.0%. More typical commercial sectors such as Automotive and Retail appear further down the ranking at 70.0%.
Industry Patterns
Jewellery & Luxury and Furniture are French Polynesia's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Furniture | 100% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 70% | 80% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 90% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 100% | 50% | 40% | 70% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Jewellery & Luxury leads the hardest-access ranking at a mean tier of 2.90 (median 3). Furniture is the notable entry at mean 2.60 (median 3) — sectors at median Tier 3 are uncommon. All other top-15 sectors sit at a median of 2.
Computer & Video Games is French Polynesia's most accessible sector
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 100% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 10% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 80% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 88.9% | 44.4% | 11.1% | 33.3% | 0% | 0% | 66.7% | 33.3% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
The lowest mean recommended tier in the bottom 15 is 1.70, shared by Banking and Computer & Video Games. All sectors in this group carry a median tier of 2, with mean scores ranging from 1.70 up to 2.00.