Overview
CAPTCHA outranks Antibot by the widest secondary barrier gap in Guyana
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.9% |
| JavaScript | 41.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.8% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
WAF reaches 92.8%. JavaScript leads secondary barriers at 41.2%. CAPTCHA (23.9%) outranks Antibot (19.8%) by 4.1 percentage points. TLS (18.5%) and Rate Limiting (13.8%) round out the secondary profile.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript outranks Antibot among Guyana secondary barriers
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92.8% |
| Antibot | 19.8% |
| CAPTCHA | 23.9% |
| JavaScript | 41.2% |
| Rate Limiting | 13.8% |
| TLS | 18.5% |
| Has robots.txt | 81.6% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 14.4% |
WAF leads at 92.8%. JavaScript reaches 41.2%. CAPTCHA (23.9%) sits above Antibot (19.8%) by 4.1 points — an unusually wide gap. Rate Limiting at 11.8% is the lowest secondary barrier.
Two barriers is the most common site configuration
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3.8% |
| 1 barrier | 30.7% |
| 2 barriers | 33.7% |
| 3 barriers | 19.5% |
| 4 barriers | 8.2% |
| 5 barriers | 3.5% |
| 6 barriers | 0.5% |
33.7% of sites carry exactly two barriers — the most common count. 3.8% have zero. 31.7% deploy three or more barriers. The tail extends to all six barriers at 0.5% of sites.
Most Guyana sites are Easy to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.7 |
Mean recommended tier is 1.68 with a median of 2, indicating that fewer than 50% of Guyana sites resolve at the simplest retrieval level. Tier 2 is the median outcome.
Easy access sites are unusually prominent in Guyana
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 47.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 40.7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 9.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 1.6% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1.2% |
Tier 1 accounts for 47.4% of sites and Tier 2 for 40.7% — 88.1% combined. Tier 3 reaches 9.1%. Tier 4 and Tier 5 each remain below 2%.
robots.txt
AI crawlers lead the named-bot categories in Guyana
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 16% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13.1% |
| SEO audit tools | 14% |
| Commercial scrapers | 8.1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 7% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4.1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0.5% |
16.0% of all sites name at least one AI crawler in robots.txt. SEO audit tools follow at 14.0% and SEO/search indexing at 13.1% — the three top categories are within three percentage points of each other. Monitoring bots appear at 0.5%.
Uniform per-agent rules are the most common posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules (no path mixing) | 42.4% |
| Path-level mixed rules for same agent | 33.6% |
| Allow-only (no disallow rules) | 2.3% |
| Mixed AI posture (block some, allow others) | 2.7% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2.9% |
42.4% of all sites use uniform per-agent rules. Path-level mixed rules account for 33.6%. Blanket Disallow (2.9%) slightly exceeds Mixed AI posture (2.7%). Allow-only sits at 2.3%.
GPTBot faces the most Disallow rules in Guyana's robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | 12.2% | 2% |
| CCBot | 8.3% | 1.1% |
| ClaudeBot | 8.4% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 8.9% | 1.5% |
| Bytespider | 6.9% | 0.5% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | 0.3% |
| ChatGPT-User | 5.9% | 2.7% |
| PerplexityBot | 6.1% | 2.5% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4.8% | 0.5% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 4.3% | 2.1% |
| anthropic-ai | 4.9% | 0.7% |
GPTBot is Disallowed by 12.2% of all sites — the top blocked agent. Google-Extended (8.9%), ClaudeBot (8.4%), and CCBot (8.3%) follow in close succession. ChatGPT-User receives the highest explicit Allow rate at 2.7%.
Seven sectors unanimously name at least one bot to restrict
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Computer & Video Games | 100% |
| Design | 100% |
| Entertainment | 100% |
| Newspapers | 100% |
| Packaging | 100% |
| Retail | 100% |
| Writing & Editing | 100% |
| Adult | 90% |
| Biotech | 90% |
| General | 90% |
| Healthcare | 90% |
| Mass Media | 90% |
| Online Services | 90% |
| Publishing | 90% |
| Telecom | 90% |
Computer & Video Games, Design, Entertainment, Newspapers, Packaging, Retail, and Writing & Editing each show 100% of sites naming at least one bot in a Disallow rule. Eight further sectors sit at 90%.
Guyana's Ceramics & Pottery sites lead in explicitly allowing crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Ceramics & Pottery | 83.3% |
| Biotech | 70% |
| Photography | 70% |
| Publishing | 70% |
| Retail | 70% |
| Airlines | 60% |
| Architecture | 60% |
| Consulting | 60% |
| IT Services | 60% |
| Market Research | 60% |
| Museums | 60% |
| Renewable Energy | 60% |
| Science | 60% |
| Software & Dev | 60% |
| Sporting Goods | 60% |
Ceramics & Pottery shows 83.3% of sites naming at least one bot in an Allow rule — the highest rate. Biotech, Photography, Publishing, and Retail follow at 70%. Ten further sectors — including Airlines, IT Services, and Science — sit at 60%.
Industry Patterns
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury are Guyana's hardest sectors to access
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospitality | 90% | 20% | 0% | 70% | 30% | 40% | 70% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Jewellery & Luxury | 100% | 10% | 0% | 50% | 50% | 50% | 60% | 10% | Tier 3 |
| Apparel & Fashion | 100% | 10% | 20% | 70% | 20% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Retail | 100% | 10% | 0% | 70% | 10% | 10% | 100% | 50% | Tier 2 |
| Real Estate | 100% | 10% | 10% | 70% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 90% | 40% | 20% | 50% | 30% | 0% | 80% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Computer Hardware | 90% | 20% | 0% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Human Resources | 100% | 60% | 50% | 40% | 60% | 30% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Transport & Logistics | 70% | 50% | 30% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Wholesalers | 90% | 10% | 20% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 80% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 20% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 70% | 20% | 10% | 40% | 10% | 40% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 90% | 20% | 20% | 60% | 20% | 0% | 60% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Automotive | 90% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 30% | 80% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 90% | 10% | 20% | 20% | 10% | 10% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
Hospitality and Jewellery & Luxury both reach a median tier of 3 with a mean of 2.70 — the highest in the distribution. The remaining 13 sectors cluster at median tier 2, from mean 2.50 (Apparel & Fashion, Retail) down to 2.10.
Five sectors share Guyana's most accessible floor
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recruitment & Staffing | 100% | 40% | 50% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 80% | 10% | 20% | 40% | 20% | 40% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Insurance | 80% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Delivery | 70% | 20% | 10% | 30% | 10% | 30% | 80% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Oil & Gas | 80% | 10% | 20% | 30% | 0% | 10% | 90% | 20% | Tier 2 |
| Biotech | 90% | 20% | 30% | 50% | 10% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 90% | 10% | 0% | 40% | 0% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices | 100% | 10% | 30% | 40% | 0% | 0% | 90% | 0% | Tier 2 |
| Restaurants | 80% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 50% | 10% | 70% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Science | 100% | 30% | 20% | 40% | 30% | 10% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Advertising & Mktg | 100% | 30% | 50% | 50% | 0% | 30% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Design | 100% | 30% | 40% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 100% | 40% | Tier 2 |
| Manufacturing | 80% | 10% | 10% | 40% | 30% | 30% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Music | 100% | 40% | 30% | 60% | 20% | 20% | 90% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Non-Profit | 90% | 10% | 10% | 50% | 20% | 20% | 70% | 0% | Tier 2 |
The most accessible sectors reach a mean tier of 1.80. Advertising & Mktg, Design, Manufacturing, Music, and Non-Profit all share this floor — each with a median of 2.