Overview
CAPTCHA more than doubles Antibot — a wide secondary barrier gap
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 12.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 27.3% |
| JavaScript | 40.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.1% |
| TLS | 14.4% |
WAF covers 92.8% of Wallis and Futuna's 139 surveyed sites. CAPTCHA is the second secondary barrier at 27.3% — more than double the Antibot rate of 12.9%. JavaScript leads secondary deployment at 40.3%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript leads Antibot by 14 points among secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 12.9% |
| CAPTCHA | 27.3% |
| JavaScript | 40.3% |
| Rate Limiting | 10.1% |
| TLS | 14.4% |
| Has robots.txt | 78.4% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 15.1% |
WAF is present on 92.8% of sites. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 40.3%. CAPTCHA (27.3%) stands 14.4 points above Antibot (12.9%) — a notably wide gap. TLS is 14.4% and Rate Limiting 10.1%.
Single-barrier sites are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.8% |
| 1 barrier | 37.4% |
| 2 barriers | 23.7% |
| 3 barriers | 23.7% |
| 4 barriers | 5% |
| 5 barriers | 4.3% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
5.8% of Wallis and Futuna sites present no detectable barriers. One barrier is the modal count at 37.4%. Two-barrier and three-barrier configurations each account for 23.7% of sites. No site deploys all six barriers.
Most Wallis and Futuna sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.3 |
Wallis and Futuna's median recommended browser tier is 1; its mean of 1.30 reflects a highly accessible profile. Tier 1 covers 74.1% of sites, Tier 2 a further 21.6%, and Tier 3 the remaining 4.3%. No sites require Tier 4 or 5.
Nearly all Wallis and Futuna sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 74.1% |
| 2 - Easy | 21.6% |
| 3 - Moderate | 4.3% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Tier 1 accounts for 74.1% of Wallis and Futuna's sites; Tier 2 adds 21.6%, bringing the combined share to 95.7%. Tier 3 accounts for the remaining 4.3%. No sites fall at Tier 4 or Tier 5.
robots.txt
Three bot categories are tied in Wallis and Futuna robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16.5% |
| SEO / search indexing | 14.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 12.9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 14.4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 14.4% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 9.4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.7% |
AI crawlers lead at 16.5% of Wallis and Futuna's 139 surveyed sites. SEO / search indexing, Commercial scrapers, and Social / content scrapers each share exactly 14.4%. All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites, including those without robots.txt.
Blanket Disallow reaches an elevated share of all sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 34.5% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 28.8% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.9% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 11.5% |
Uniform per-agent rules is the most common posture at 34.5% of Wallis and Futuna's 139 sites. Path-mixed rules follow at 28.8%. Blanket Disallow: / appears on 11.5% of all sites — accounting for its own prominent band.
ClaudeBot faces the most Disallow rules in Wallis and Futuna's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.8% | 0.7% |
| CCBot | 7.2% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 11.5% | 0.7% |
| Google-Extended | 8.6% | 0.7% |
| Bytespider | 8.6% | 0.7% |
| meta-externalagent | 0.7% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 2.9% | 0.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 10.1% | 1.4% |
| Applebot-Extended | 8.6% | 0.7% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 2.9% | 0.7% |
| anthropic-ai | 6.5% | 0.7% |
ClaudeBot is Disallowed by 11.5% of Wallis and Futuna's 139 sites — the highest of any agent. GPTBot follows at 10.8%. PerplexityBot holds the highest explicit Allow rate at 1.4%.
Newspapers is the only sector with every site blocking named bots
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Newspapers | 100% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 80% |
| Music | 80% |
| Online Services | 80% |
| Publishing | 71.4% |
| Adult | 70% |
| Computer & Video Games | 60% |
| Finance | 57.1% |
| Government | 50% |
| Software & Dev | 50% |
| Retail | 44.4% |
| Banking | 40% |
| Education | 30% |
Newspapers is the only Wallis and Futuna sector where every site names at least one bot to restrict in robots.txt. General follows at 90%; Mass Media, Music, and Online Services each stand at 80%.
Publishing leads sectors on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publishing | 71.4% |
| Software & Dev | 66.7% |
| General | 60% |
| Music | 60% |
| Mass Media | 50% |
| Newspapers | 50% |
| Online Services | 50% |
| Government | 33.3% |
| Retail | 33.3% |
| Adult | 30% |
| Education | 30% |
| Finance | 28.6% |
| Banking | 20% |
| Computer & Video Games | 20% |
Publishing leads Wallis and Futuna's named-bot Allow rate at 71.4% of sites in that sector. Software & Dev follows at 66.7%. General and Music each reach 60%.
Industry Patterns
Real Estate is Wallis and Futuna's hardest sector to access programmatically
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 71.4% | 0% | 0% | 28.6% | 0% | 0% | 71.4% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Publishing | 100% | 0% | 14.3% | 42.9% | 0% | 14.3% | 85.7% | 14.3% | Tier 1 |
| Banking | 60% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Music | 100% | 0% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Software & Dev | 100% | 16.7% | 50% | 16.7% | 16.7% | 0% | 83.3% | 16.7% | Tier 1 |
| General | 100% | 10% | 70% | 60% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 30% | Tier 1 |
| Mass Media | 90% | 0% | 60% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 90% | 0% | 60% | 60% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 1 |
| Retail | 88.9% | 11.1% | 22.2% | 22.2% | 22.2% | 11.1% | 44.4% | 11.1% | Tier 1 |
| Government | 100% | 50% | 16.7% | 50% | 33.3% | 16.7% | 66.7% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Newspapers | 100% | 0% | 25% | 25% | 0% | 12.5% | 100% | 50% | Tier 1 |
| Education | 90% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 20% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 40% | Tier 1 |
Adult is Wallis and Futuna's hardest sector with a mean tier of 1.80 and the only industry at median Tier 2. Finance and Publishing each follow at mean 1.43. All remaining tracked sectors have a median of Tier 1.
No industry breakdown available at this sample size
Insufficient sites across industries to support a reliable heatmap at this sample size.