Overview
CAPTCHA and Antibot are within one point of each other in Vanuatu
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.3% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 37.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.3% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
WAF covers 94.3% of Vanuatu's 644 surveyed sites. Among secondary barriers, CAPTCHA (22.4%) and Antibot (21.9%) are separated by just 0.5 points — a near tie. JavaScript leads both at 37.4%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Vanuatu's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94.3% |
| Antibot | 21.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.4% |
| JavaScript | 37.4% |
| Rate Limiting | 11.3% |
| TLS | 18.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 16.6% |
WAF is present on 94.3% of Vanuatu sites. JavaScript is the leading secondary barrier at 37.4%. CAPTCHA (22.4%) and Antibot (21.9%) are separated by 0.5 percentage points. TLS stands at 18.9%, Rate Limiting at 11.3%.
Two-barrier deployment is the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.4% |
| 1 barrier | 30.4% |
| 2 barriers | 37.6% |
| 3 barriers | 17.4% |
| 4 barriers | 7.8% |
| 5 barriers | 3.1% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
3.4% of Vanuatu's surveyed sites present no detectable barriers. Two barriers is the modal count, covering 37.6% of sites. Sites with three or more barriers account for 28.6% of the total.
Most Vanuatu sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Vanuatu's median recommended browser tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites resolve at Tier 1. The mean of 1.63 reflects a tail of harder sites: 8.7% at Tier 3, 1.2% at Tier 4, and 1.6% at Tier 5.
Nearly nine in 10 Vanuatu sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 53.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 35.1% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1.6% |
Tier 1 accounts for 53.4% of Vanuatu's sites; Tier 2 adds a further 35.1%, bringing the combined share to 88.5%. Tier 3 covers 8.7%, Tier 4 1.2%, and Tier 5 1.6%.
robots.txt
SEO audit tools outrank SEO search indexing in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 18% |
| SEO / search indexing | 11.5% |
| SEO audit tools | 15.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.9% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.6% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are mentioned by 18.0% of Vanuatu's 644 surveyed sites. SEO audit tools (15.5%) rank second, ahead of SEO / search indexing bots (11.5%). All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites, including those without robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules cover the largest share of sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 43.3% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.5% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.3% |
Uniform per-agent rules is the most common posture at 43.3% of Vanuatu's 644 sites. Path-level mixed rules account for 33.5%. Blanket Disallow: / and mixed AI posture each appear on 3.3% of sites.
GPTBot is the most blocked and most allowed agent in Vanuatu
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 14.3% | 2.5% |
| CCBot | 9.8% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 10.7% | 1.2% |
| Google-Extended | 11.2% | 2.2% |
| Bytespider | 8.4% | 0.9% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.3% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 2.5% |
| PerplexityBot | 7.1% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 5.6% | 0.3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.2% | 1.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 5% | 1.1% |
GPTBot is Disallowed by 14.3% of Vanuatu's 644 sites — the highest of any agent. Google-Extended follows at 11.2%. GPTBot and ChatGPT-User each hold the joint-highest explicit Allow rate at 2.5%.
Seven sectors unanimously name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% |
| Automotive | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Renewable Energy | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Wholesalers | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Computer Hardware | 90% |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
Seven Vanuatu sectors — including Apparel & Fashion, Retail, and Wholesalers — show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate: every site names at least one bot to restrict. Eight further sectors stand at 90%.
Airlines leads sectors on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Airlines | 80% |
| Automotive | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Travel & Tourism | 70% |
| Oil & Gas | 66.7% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 60% |
| Design | 60% |
| Import & Export | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Computer Hardware | 50% |
| Food & Beverages | 50% |
Airlines has Vanuatu's highest explicit named-bot Allow rate at 80% of sites in that sector. Automotive, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Travel & Tourism each follow at 70%.
Industry Patterns
Apparel & Fashion is Vanuatu's hardest sector to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 0% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 66.7% | 16.7% | 0% | 16.7% | 0% | 16.7% | 83.3% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Security | 80% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 10% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 30% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 90% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 40% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Apparel & Fashion posts Vanuatu's highest mean recommended browser tier at 2.55. Mail & Delivery and Security each follow at mean 2.50. All 15 leading sectors fall within the Tier 2 Easy band.
Five sectors share Vanuatu's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design | 100% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 80% | 20% | 10% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 90% | 0% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 40% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 66.7% | 33.3% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 33.3% | 50% | 33.3% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 80% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 90% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 0% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Renewable Energy | 100% | 0% | 16.7% | 50% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 100% | 0% | Tier 1 |
The most accessible industries in Vanuatu average mean tier 1.60: Adult, Distance Learning, Education, Finance, and Music all share this floor value. Industries ranked by mean recommended browser tier.