Overview
JavaScript and CAPTCHA both elevate Architecture's active barrier profile
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 95% |
| Antibot | 21% |
| CAPTCHA | 33% |
| JavaScript | 40% |
| Rate Limiting | 20% |
| TLS | 10% |
WAF leads at 95%. JavaScript (40%) and CAPTCHA (33%) together form a multi-layer active stack — more than most sectors deploy alongside WAF.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Architecture at 95% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 95% |
| Antibot | 21% |
| CAPTCHA | 33% |
| JavaScript | 40% |
| Rate Limiting | 20% |
| TLS | 10% |
| Has robots.txt | 84% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 12% |
WAF dominates at 95%. JavaScript (40%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (33%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 21% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Architecture's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 33% |
| 2 barriers | 36% |
| 3 barriers | 10% |
| 4 barriers | 1% |
| 5 barriers | 16% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
36% of Architecture sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 27% stack three or more. 4% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Nearly all Architecture sites are Simple to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.28 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.28 and a median of Simple place Architecture among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 86% of sites are Simple to access; 7% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Architecture sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 86% |
| 2 - Easy | 7% |
| 3 - Moderate | 3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 3% |
Simple (86%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 93% of sites, while 3% land at Moderate and 4% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Most Architecture sites publish a robots.txt — coverage above the norm
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 84% |
84% of Architecture sites publish a valid robots.txt. The 16% without a file leave crawl policy undefined — a lower gap than the cross-sector average of around 24%.
Architecture sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 29% |
| 1 | 43% |
| 2–4 | 12% |
| 5–9 | 5% |
| 10–15 | 3% |
| 16+ | 8% |
The mean of 5.0 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Architecture. 29% of sites name no agents; 43% name exactly one. Only 8% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
AI crawlers and SEO audit tools draw near-equal attention in Architecture robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 13% |
| SEO / search indexing | 10% |
| SEO audit tools | 12% |
| Commercial scrapers | 4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers appears in 13% of Architecture sites; SEO audit tools in 12%. The near-equal split reflects a sector that treats both categories with comparable priority. Figures are percentages of all 100 sites.
Path-level mixed rules dominate Architecture robots.txt posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 37% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 39% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 7% |
| Mixed AI posture | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Path-level mixed rules lead at 39%, with uniform per-agent rules at 37%. Mixed AI posture reaches 0%.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in Architecture robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 60% | 48% |
| ClaudeBot | 10% | — |
| Amazonbot | 9% | — |
| CCBot | 9% | — |
| Googlebot | 4% | 4% |
| Bytespider | 8% | — |
| GPTBot | 8% | — |
| Google-Extended | 8% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 7% | — |
| PetalBot | 7% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 7% | — |
| SemrushBot | 5% | — |
| PerplexityBot | 5% | — |
| Claude-SearchBot | 4% | — |
| Perplexity-User | 4% | — |
| Claude-User | 4% | — |
| DuckAssistBot | 4% | — |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | 4% | — |
| PanguBot | 4% | — |
| Timpibot | 4% | — |
| Webzio-Extended | 4% | — |
| cohere-ai | 4% | — |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | 4% | — |
| ia_archiver | 4% | — |
| AhrefsBot | 3% | 1% |
Values are percentages of all 100 Architecture sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 60% Disallow. Among named agents, ClaudeBot, CCBot lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
Architecture is the most accessible sub-category in the Design & Creative Arts cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 95% | 21% | 33% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 84% | 12% | Tier 1 |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 97% | 16% | 38% | 47% | 17% | 12% | 77% | 5% | Tier 1 |
| Comics & Animation | 93% | 15% | 28% | 34% | 10% | 7% | 77% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Crafts | 98% | 21% | 34% | 44% | 24% | 12% | 82% | 18% | Tier 1 |
| Design | 99% | 24% | 27% | 40% | 21% | 11% | 89% | 14% | Tier 1 |
| Graphic Design | 99% | 11% | 21% | 19% | 12% | 9% | 87% | 9% | Tier 1 |
| Performing Arts | 93% | 11% | 19% | 39% | 19% | 11% | 75% | 7% | Tier 1 |
| Photography | 95% | 19% | 28% | 42% | 42% | 32% | 68% | 15% | Tier 1 |
| Printing | 98% | 19% | 28% | 34% | 13% | 10% | 81% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Visual Art | 98% | 20% | 31% | 43% | 20% | 10% | 84% | 22% | Tier 1 |
A median tier of Simple and mean of 1.14 make Architecture the easiest to access programmatically within Design & Creative Arts. WAF (95%) and AI blocking (12%) are below cohort peers.