Overview
JavaScript leads Comics & Animation's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 28% |
| JavaScript | 34% |
| Rate Limiting | 10% |
| TLS | 7% |
WAF at 93% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (34%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Comics & Animation a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Comics & Animation at 93% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 28% |
| JavaScript | 34% |
| Rate Limiting | 10% |
| TLS | 7% |
| Has robots.txt | 77% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 6% |
WAF dominates at 93%. JavaScript (34%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (28%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 15% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Comics & Animation's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5% |
| 1 barrier | 36% |
| 2 barriers | 41% |
| 3 barriers | 8% |
| 4 barriers | 5% |
| 5 barriers | 5% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
41% of Comics & Animation sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 18% stack three or more. 5% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Nearly all Comics & Animation sites are Simple to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.05 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.05 and a median of Simple place Comics & Animation among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 96% of sites are Simple to access; 1% require Moderate or above.
Almost all Comics & Animation sites are Simple to access
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 96% |
| 2 - Easy | 3% |
| 3 - Moderate | 1% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (96%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 99% of sites, while 1% land at Moderate and 0% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around three-quarters of Comics & Animation sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 77% |
77% of Comics & Animation sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 23% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Most Comics & Animation sites name one bot or none in their robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 43% |
| 1 | 38% |
| 2–4 | 9% |
| 5–9 | 4% |
| 10–15 | 1% |
| 16+ | 5% |
43% of Comics & Animation sites name zero agents and 38% name one. A mean of 8.9 is pulled up by a small number of sites with extensive policies, while the median stays at 1.
SEO audit tools draw the most robots.txt attention in Comics & Animation
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 6% |
| SEO / search indexing | 6% |
| SEO audit tools | 10% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 0% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO audit tools are named in 10% of Comics & Animation robots.txt files, followed by AI crawlers at 6%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Comics & Animation robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 37% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 27% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 12% |
| Mixed AI posture | 2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 37%, with path-level mixed rules at 27%. Mixed AI posture (2%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in Comics & Animation robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 40% | 39% |
| GPTBot | 6% | 2% |
| AhrefsBot | 7% | — |
| Bytespider | 4% | 2% |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | 2% |
| AdsBot-Google | 3% | 2% |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile | 3% | 2% |
| Amazonbot | 3% | 2% |
| CCBot | 3% | 2% |
| FacebookBot | 3% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 3% | 2% |
| cohere-ai | 3% | 2% |
| omgili | 3% | 2% |
| Googlebot | 3% | 2% |
| Yandex | 3% | 2% |
| SemrushBot | 4% | — |
| AI2Bot | 2% | 2% |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile-Apps | 2% | 2% |
| Ai2Bot-Dolma | 2% | 2% |
| Applebot-Extended | 2% | 2% |
| DuckAssistBot | 2% | 2% |
| Google-Extended | 2% | 2% |
| GoogleOther | 2% | 2% |
| GoogleOther-Image | 2% | 2% |
| GoogleOther-Video | 2% | 2% |
Values are percentages of all 100 Comics & Animation sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 40% Disallow. Among named agents, AhrefsBot leads the Disallow list, followed by GPTBot and Bytespider — reflecting direct targeting of SEO audit and AI training bots.
Industry Cohort
Comics & Animation sits mid-table within 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 |
Across Design & Creative Arts, Comics & Animation's barrier rates are broadly in line with peers. WAF at 93%, JavaScript at 34%, and AI blocking at 6% all sit near the cohort median. Tier difficulty (mean 1.05) is below the group average.