Overview
JavaScript and CAPTCHA both elevate Ceramics & Pottery's active barrier profile
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97% |
| Antibot | 16% |
| CAPTCHA | 38% |
| JavaScript | 47% |
| Rate Limiting | 17% |
| TLS | 12% |
WAF leads at 97%. JavaScript (47%) and CAPTCHA (38%) together form a multi-layer active stack — more than most sectors deploy alongside WAF.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Ceramics & Pottery's dominant secondary barrier by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97% |
| Antibot | 16% |
| CAPTCHA | 38% |
| JavaScript | 47% |
| Rate Limiting | 17% |
| TLS | 12% |
| Has robots.txt | 77% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 5% |
WAF at 97% and JavaScript at 47% together form the sector's main defensive layer. CAPTCHA (38%) follows at a distance. The barrier profile is concentrated rather than broadly spread.
Two-barrier stacks are Ceramics & Pottery's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2% |
| 1 barrier | 26% |
| 2 barriers | 39% |
| 3 barriers | 18% |
| 4 barriers | 7% |
| 5 barriers | 7% |
| 6 barriers | 1% |
39% of Ceramics & Pottery sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 33% stack three or more. 2% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Ceramics & Pottery sites are predominantly Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.21 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.21 and a median of Simple place Ceramics & Pottery among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 84% of sites are Simple to access; 4% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Ceramics & Pottery sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 84% |
| 2 - Easy | 12% |
| 3 - Moderate | 3% |
| 4 - Complex | 1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (84%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 96% of sites, while 3% land at Moderate and 1% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around three-quarters of Ceramics & Pottery sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 77% |
77% of Ceramics & Pottery sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 23% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Ceramics & Pottery sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 33% |
| 1 | 46% |
| 2–4 | 5% |
| 5–9 | 11% |
| 10–15 | 1% |
| 16+ | 4% |
The mean of 2.7 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Ceramics & Pottery. 33% of sites name no agents; 46% name exactly one. Only 4% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
SEO audit tools and AI crawlers draw near-equal attention in Ceramics & Pottery robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 6% |
| SEO audit tools | 9% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO audit tools appears in 9% of Ceramics & Pottery sites; AI crawlers in 7%. The near-equal split reflects a sector that treats both categories with comparable priority. Figures are percentages of all 100 sites.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Ceramics & Pottery robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 44% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 29% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 4% |
| Mixed AI posture | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 0% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 44%, with path-level mixed rules at 29%. Mixed AI posture (0%) and blanket Disallow (0%) are minimal.
AhrefsBot leads named Disallow rules in Ceramics & Pottery robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 58% | 36% |
| AhrefsBot | 9% | 2% |
| AhrefsSiteAudit | 6% | 4% |
| Nutch | 6% | 1% |
| adsbot-google | 5% | 2% |
| Googlebot | 3% | 2% |
| CCBot | 4% | 1% |
| MJ12bot | 4% | 1% |
| Yandex | 4% | 1% |
| GPTBot | 4% | — |
| Bytespider | 4% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 3% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 3% | 1% |
| DotBot | 3% | — |
| SemrushBot | 3% | — |
| Amazonbot | 3% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 3% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | — |
| DOC | 2% | — |
| Download Ninja | 2% | — |
| Fetch | 2% | — |
| HTTrack | 2% | — |
| MSIECrawler | 2% | — |
| Microsoft.URL.Control | 2% | — |
| Offline Explorer | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Ceramics & Pottery sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 58% Disallow. Among named agents, AhrefsBot, AhrefsSiteAudit, Nutch are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Ceramics & Pottery leads the Design & Creative Arts cohort on JavaScript deployment
| 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 |
Ceramics & Pottery's 47% JavaScript adoption rate leads all sub-categories in Design & Creative Arts. WAF (97%) is mid-table. Tier difficulty (mean 1.20) is in line with cohort peers.