Overview
CAPTCHA and TLS are both elevated among Samoa secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 22.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 26.4% |
| JavaScript | 36.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.2% |
| TLS | 20.7% |
WAF covers 93.2% of Samoa's 599 surveyed sites. CAPTCHA (26.4%) and TLS (20.7%) are notably high for this region. JavaScript at 36.1% is the lowest secondary barrier rate, with Antibot at 22.5% and Rate Limiting at 13.2%.
Barrier Landscape
CAPTCHA and TLS are both elevated among Samoa secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93.2% |
| Antibot | 22.5% |
| CAPTCHA | 26.4% |
| JavaScript | 36.1% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.2% |
| TLS | 20.7% |
| Has robots.txt | 82.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 18% |
WAF leads at 93.2%. JavaScript is the top secondary barrier at 36.1% — the lowest in this country group. CAPTCHA (26.4%) and TLS (20.7%) are elevated relative to most peers. Antibot is 22.5%, Rate Limiting 13.2%.
Two-barrier deployment is the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2.8% |
| 1 barrier | 30.2% |
| 2 barriers | 36.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18.2% |
| 4 barriers | 7.2% |
| 5 barriers | 4.7% |
| 6 barriers | 0.3% |
2.8% of Samoa's surveyed sites present no detectable barriers. Two barriers is the modal count, covering 36.6% of sites. Sites deploying three or more barriers account for 30.4% of the total.
Most Samoa sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Samoa's median recommended browser tier is 1, meaning more than half of sites resolve at Tier 1. A mean of 1.61 reflects a tail of harder sites: 6.5% at Tier 3, 2.2% at Tier 4, and 0.8% at Tier 5.
Nine in 10 Samoa sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 52.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 6.5% |
| 4 - Complex | 2.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.8% |
Tier 1 accounts for 52.3% of Samoa's sites; Tier 2 adds 38.2%, bringing the combined share to 90.5%. Tier 3 covers 6.5%, Tier 4 covers 2.2%, and Tier 5 covers 0.8% of sites.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead Samoa's named-bot hierarchy in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 19.2% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.7% |
| SEO audit tools | 16.7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.3% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.2% |
AI crawlers lead at 19.2% of Samoa's 599 surveyed sites. SEO audit tools (16.7%) rank second — above SEO / search indexing bots (12.7%). All figures are percentages of all surveyed sites, including those without robots.txt.
Path-mixed rules affect over a third of all Samoa sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 36.2% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 1.2% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 3.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 3.2% |
Uniform per-agent rules is the most common posture at 41.4% of Samoa's 599 sites. Path-level mixed rules follow closely at 36.2%. Blanket Disallow: / appears on 3.2% of sites; Mixed AI posture on 3.7%.
GPTBot leads both Disallow and Allow counts among OpenAI agents
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 15.4% | 2.8% |
| CCBot | 11.2% | 1.3% |
| ClaudeBot | 11.4% | 1.3% |
| Google-Extended | 11.7% | 1.3% |
| Bytespider | 8.3% | 1.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 4.3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 8.3% | 3.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 9.2% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 6.3% | 0.8% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 5.5% | 2.3% |
| anthropic-ai | 6.5% | 1.2% |
GPTBot is Disallowed by 15.4% of Samoa's 599 sites — the highest of any agent. Google-Extended follows at 11.7%. ChatGPT-User holds the highest explicit Allow rate at 3.2%, with GPTBot close behind at 2.8%.
Samoa consumer electronics sites all name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Consumer Electronics | 100% |
| Food & Beverages | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Computer & Video Games | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Photography | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Apparel & Fashion | 80% |
| Healthcare | 80% |
Three Samoa sectors — Consumer Electronics, Food & Beverages, and Retail — show a 100% named-bot Disallow rate: every site names at least one bot to restrict. Eight further sectors stand at 90%.
Automotive leads sectors on explicit bot Allow rules
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% |
| Photography | 80% |
| Retail | 80% |
| Advertising & Mktg | 70% |
| Food & Beverages | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Computers & Electronics | 62.5% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Travel & Tourism | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 55.6% |
| Adult | 50% |
| Computer Hardware | 50% |
Automotive leads Samoa's named-bot Allow rate at 90% of sites. Photography and Retail each follow at 80%. Advertising & Marketing, Food & Beverages, and Publishing each reach 70%.
Industry Patterns
Automotive, Consumer Electronics, and Hospitality share the hardest tier
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive | 100% | 30% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 50% | 30% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Hospitality | 100% | 30% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 60% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 20% | 0% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 10% | 10% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 60% | 40% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Adult | 100% | 30% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 20% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Airlines | 90% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 14.3% | 0% | 57.1% | 0% | 0% | 71.4% | 14.3% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 100% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 90% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 40% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Three Samoa sectors tie at the highest mean recommended browser tier of 2.40: Automotive, Consumer Electronics, and Hospitality. Human Resources and Retail each follow at 2.30. Industries ranked by mean recommended browser tier.
Legal is the most accessible sector in Samoa
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Recruitment & Staffing | 88.9% | 44.4% | 66.7% | 0% | 11.1% | 66.7% | 88.9% | 11.1% | Tier 2 |
| Banking | 100% | 60% | 0% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Ecology & Environment | 100% | 30% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Education | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Finance | 80% | 40% | 0% | 10% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Publishing | 90% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 90% | 60% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 100% | 20% | 70% | 40% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 0% | 10% | 100% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Government | 90% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Distance Learning | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 30% | 10% | 70% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 0% | 0% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Photography | 90% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 60% | 90% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Legal | 90% | 0% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
Legal posts Samoa's lowest mean recommended browser tier at 1.45 — the sole sector at this floor. Photography and Computer & Video Games follow at 1.50. Industries ranked by mean recommended browser tier.