Overview
JavaScript leads Entertainment's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 18% |
| JavaScript | 46% |
| Rate Limiting | 23% |
| TLS | 13% |
WAF at 92% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (46%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Entertainment a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Entertainment's dominant secondary barrier by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 18% |
| JavaScript | 46% |
| Rate Limiting | 23% |
| TLS | 13% |
| Has robots.txt | 77% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 30% |
WAF at 92% and JavaScript at 46% together form the sector's main defensive layer. Rate Limiting (23%) follows at a distance. The barrier profile is concentrated rather than broadly spread.
Two-barrier stacks are Entertainment's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 8% |
| 1 barrier | 29% |
| 2 barriers | 32% |
| 3 barriers | 19% |
| 4 barriers | 3% |
| 5 barriers | 7% |
| 6 barriers | 2% |
32% of Entertainment sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 31% stack three or more. 8% carry none — a moderate share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Entertainment is predominantly Easy to access — with a notable Moderate minority
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.80 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.79 and a median of Easy place Entertainment around the middle of the sectors surveyed. 40% of sites are Simple to access; 12% require Moderate or above.
Simple and Easy cover nine in ten Entertainment sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 39.8% |
| 2 - Easy | 48% |
| 3 - Moderate | 6.1% |
| 4 - Complex | 5.1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Easy (48%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 88% of sites, while 6% land at Moderate and 6% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around three-quarters of Entertainment sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 77% |
77% of Entertainment sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 23% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Entertainment sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 32% |
| 1 | 22% |
| 2–4 | 13% |
| 5–9 | 6% |
| 10–15 | 3% |
| 16+ | 24% |
The mean of 9.1 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Entertainment. 32% of sites name no agents; 22% name exactly one. Only 24% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Entertainment
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 32% |
| SEO / search indexing | 9% |
| SEO audit tools | 16% |
| Commercial scrapers | 22% |
| Social / content scrapers | 3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers are mentioned by 32% of Entertainment sites — the leading bot category. Commercial scrapers follows at 22%. Figures are percentages of all 100 Entertainment sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Entertainment robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 49% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 23% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 4% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 49%, with path-level mixed rules at 23%. Mixed AI posture (1%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in Entertainment robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 60% | 26% |
| GPTBot | 26% | 1% |
| CCBot | 25% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 21% | — |
| Bytespider | 20% | — |
| anthropic-ai | 18% | 1% |
| FacebookBot | 18% | — |
| Google-Extended | 17% | 1% |
| Diffbot | 18% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 17% | — |
| Claude-Web | 16% | 1% |
| omgili | 17% | — |
| cohere-ai | 15% | — |
| PerplexityBot | 13% | — |
| YouBot | 13% | — |
| Applebot | 9% | 3% |
| Scrapy | 12% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 11% | — |
| PetalBot | 9% | 1% |
| omgilibot | 10% | — |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | 8% | — |
| AhrefsBot | 8% | — |
| DataForSeoBot | 8% | — |
| ImagesiftBot | 8% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 7% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Entertainment sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 60% Disallow. Among named agents, GPTBot, CCBot lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
Entertainment leads the Entertainment cohort on AI-blocking policy
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 98% | 36% | 33% | 36% | 34% | 20% | 85% | 9% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 92% | 17% | 18% | 46% | 23% | 13% | 77% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 95% | 31% | 24% | 53% | 35% | 14% | 57% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Music | 96% | 21% | 19% | 52% | 26% | 12% | 84% | 25% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Movies | 99% | 30% | 25% | 59% | 33% | 13% | 70% | 11% | Tier 1 |
Entertainment's 30% AI-blocking rate in robots.txt is the highest in the Entertainment cohort. WAF (92%) and JavaScript (46%) sit mid-table in the cohort on technical barriers.