Overview
JavaScript leads all secondary barriers in Argentina
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 42.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
WAF reaches 92.9%. Among secondary barriers, JavaScript tops the group at 42.8%, with CAPTCHA at 22.2% and Antibot at 19.8%. Rate Limiting is the lowest secondary at 12.7%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Argentina's most common secondary barrier
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.9% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 22.2% |
| JavaScript | 42.8% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.7% |
| TLS | 17.9% |
| Has robots.txt | 80.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.4% |
WAF adopted by 92.9% of sites. JavaScript is the second-most-used barrier at 42.8%, ahead of CAPTCHA (22.2%), Antibot (19.8%), TLS (17.9%), and Rate Limiting (12.7%).
Two barriers is the most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4.9% |
| 1 barrier | 28.4% |
| 2 barriers | 36.9% |
| 3 barriers | 17.7% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0.4% |
36.9% of sites carry exactly two barriers, the modal count. 4.9% have none. 29.9% deploy three or more, spread across counts of 3 (17.7%), 4 (8.2%), 5 (3.6%), and 6 (0.4%).
Most Argentina sites are Easy to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Mean recommended tier is 1.67; median is 2, placing Argentina just below the 50% Tier 1 mark. 48.7% of sites return at Tier 1, with 38.8% at Tier 2.
Nearly nine in 10 Argentina sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 48.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 10% |
| 4 - Complex | 2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.5% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 together cover 87.5% of sites. Tier 3 accounts for 10.0%, Tier 4 for 2.0%, and Tier 5 for 0.5%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers are the most-named bot category in robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12.4% |
| SEO audit tools | 13.5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 7.5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.8% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers are named in robots.txt by 15.4% of all sites. SEO audit tools follow at 13.5%, then SEO/search indexing at 12.4%. Commercial scrapers appear at 7.5%. Monitoring bots are named by just 0.5%.
Uniform per-agent rules are the most common posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.7% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 32.3% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.5% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.4% |
42.7% of all sites use uniform per-agent rules with no path mixing. Path-level mixed rules account for 32.3%. Mixed AI posture (2.7%), allow-only (2.5%), and blanket Disallow (2.4%) each affect a small share.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Argentina's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 10.8% | 2.8% |
| CCBot | 8% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.7% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.5% | 1.8% |
| Bytespider | 6.8% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.6% | 0.2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.8% | 3.2% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.3% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.6% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.1% | 2.5% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.7% | 0.8% |
GPTBot carries a Disallow on 10.8% of all sites — the highest restriction rate. Google-Extended follows at 8.5%, then CCBot at 8.0%. ChatGPT-User receives an explicit Allow on 3.2% of sites, the highest among any agent.
Five sectors unanimously name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% |
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Visual Art | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Fishery | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Medical Devices | 90% |
| Newspapers | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, Design, Retail, and Visual Art each show 100% named-bot Disallow rates — every site in each sector names at least one bot to restrict. A further nine sectors reach 90%.
Automotive tops explicit bot Allow rules in Argentina
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 80% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Pharmaceuticals | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Investment | 60% |
| Non-Profit | 60% |
| Public Relations | 60% |
| Real Estate | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 60% |
Automotive is the sector most likely to name a bot in an Allow rule, at 80.0%. Architecture, Pharmaceuticals, Photography, Publishing, Retail, and Science follow at 70.0% each.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury are Argentina's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 30% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 60% | 30% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 100% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 30% | 20% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 90% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury both reach a median tier of 3 and a mean of 2.90 — the highest in Argentina. Equipment & Supplies follows with median 3, mean 2.50. Fourteen of the top 15 sectors have a median of 2 or above.
Eight sectors share Argentina's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 0% | 0% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Public Safety | 100% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 90% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Import & Export | 100% | 30% | 30% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 90% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 0% | 40% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Telecom | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 30% | 30% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Warehousing | 100% | 50% | 20% | 80% | 60% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
The most accessible sectors reach a mean tier of 1.90. Eight industries share this floor: Crafts, Import & Export, Manufacturing, Sports, Telecom, Veterinary, Visual Art, and Warehousing.