Overview
JavaScript leads Chile's secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.4% |
| JavaScript | 43% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 17.1% |
WAF reaches 92.8%. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 43.0%. CAPTCHA stands at 23.4%. Antibot follows at 19.6%, TLS at 17.1%, and Rate Limiting at 12.4%.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript nearly doubles CAPTCHA among secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.6% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.4% |
| JavaScript | 43% |
| Rate Limiting | 12.4% |
| TLS | 17.1% |
| Has robots.txt | 79.1% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 13.8% |
WAF adopted by 92.8%. JavaScript leads at 43.0%. CAPTCHA (23.4%) ranks second. Antibot (19.6%), TLS (17.1%), and Rate Limiting (12.4%) follow.
Two-barrier sites are the most common configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5.1% |
| 1 barrier | 28.8% |
| 2 barriers | 35.6% |
| 3 barriers | 18.1% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 3.6% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
35.6% of sites deploy exactly two barriers — the modal count. 5.1% carry none. 30.4% reach three or more: 18.1% at three, 8.2% at four, 3.6% at five, and 0.5% at all six.
Exactly half of Chile sites are Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.6 |
Mean recommended tier is 1.64; median is 1. Exactly 50.0% of sites return at Tier 1 — precisely at the majority threshold. 38.9% reach Tier 2.
Nearly nine in 10 Chile sites are Simple or Easy to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 50% |
| 2 - Easy | 38.9% |
| 3 - Moderate | 8.7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.7% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0.6% |
Tier 1 and Tier 2 together account for 88.9% of sites. Tier 3 reaches 8.7%. Tier 4 stands at 1.7% and Tier 5 at 0.6%.
robots.txt
SEO audit tools outrank SEO indexing in Chile robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 15.7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 14.4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5.3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5.5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
AI crawlers appear on 15.7% of all sites. SEO audit tools (14.4%) rank ahead of SEO/search indexing (13.1%). Archive/research crawlers (5.5%) also edge above social/content scrapers (5.3%). Monitoring bots reach 0.5%.
Uniform per-agent rules are the most common posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 41.9% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 31.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.8% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.5% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.5% |
41.9% of all sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules account for 31.6%. Allow-only posture reaches 2.8%; mixed AI posture and blanket Disallow: / share 2.5% each.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Chile's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 11.2% | 2.4% |
| CCBot | 8.6% | 0.7% |
| ClaudeBot | 7.7% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.2% | 1.7% |
| Bytespider | 6.6% | 0.2% |
| meta-externalagent | 2.3% | 0.1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 6.2% | 3% |
| PerplexityBot | 5.7% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.4% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.4% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.8% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is Disallowed on 11.2% of all sites. CCBot follows at 8.6%, then Google-Extended at 8.2%. ChatGPT-User receives an explicit Allow on 3.0% of sites — the highest rate among all agents.
Six 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% |
| Warehousing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Automotive | 90% |
| Civil Engineering | 90% |
| Comics & Animation | 90% |
| Entertainment | 90% |
| Furniture | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Investment | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
Beauty & Cosmetics, Computer & Video Games, Design, Retail, Visual Art, and Warehousing each reach 100% named-bot Disallow rates. Warehousing is an unusual entrant at the 100% level. Nine further sectors reach 90%.
Automotive tops explicit bot Allow rules in Chile
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Automotive | 90% |
| Airlines | 70% |
| Architecture | 70% |
| Investment | 70% |
| Non-Profit | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Science | 70% |
| Telecom | 70% |
| Agriculture | 60% |
| Customer Services | 60% |
| Farms & Ranches | 60% |
| Graphic Design | 60% |
| Plastics & Polymers | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 60% |
Automotive names a bot in an Allow rule on 90.0% of sites — the highest in Chile. Airlines, Architecture, Investment, Non-Profit, Photography, Publishing, Science, and Telecom follow at 70.0%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality is the hardest sector to access programmatically in Chile
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 50% | 40% | 50% | 60% | 20% | Tier 3 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 40% | 10% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 40% | 50% | 50% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 0% | Tier 3 |
| Consumer Electronics | 80% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 50% | 50% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 20% | 30% | 70% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 90% | 40% | 20% | 60% | 40% | 30% | 70% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 90% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 100% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 20% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 20% | 30% | 40% | 20% | 30% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 40% | 10% | 10% | 0% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 0% | 60% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality reaches a median tier of 3 and a mean of 2.90 — the highest in Chile. Equipment & Supplies and Jewellery & Luxury follow at median 3, mean 2.70. Computer Hardware (median 3, mean 2.60) rounds out the top tier.
Four sectors share Chile's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 20% | 10% | 50% | 10% | 20% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 100% | 10% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 10% | 100% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Crafts | 100% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 10% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 100% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 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 |
| Reference | 80% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 100% | 0% | 10% | 40% | 20% | 0% | 80% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Visual Art | 100% | 30% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 20% | 100% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 20% | 50% | 40% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Customer Services | 100% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Events | 100% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 40% | 0% | 60% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Libraries | 100% | 10% | 10% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
The most accessible sectors reach a mean tier of 1.80. Four industries share this floor: Advertising & Marketing, Customer Services, Events, and Libraries.