Overview
JavaScript and Rate Limiting both elevate Events Services's active barrier profile
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 83% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 21% |
| JavaScript | 41% |
| Rate Limiting | 26% |
| TLS | 12% |
WAF leads at 83%. JavaScript (41%) and Rate Limiting (26%) together form a multi-layer active stack — more than most sectors deploy alongside WAF.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Events Services at 83% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 83% |
| Antibot | 17% |
| CAPTCHA | 21% |
| JavaScript | 41% |
| Rate Limiting | 26% |
| TLS | 12% |
| Has robots.txt | 65% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 3% |
WAF dominates at 83%. JavaScript (41%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by Rate Limiting (26%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 21% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Events Services's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 16% |
| 1 barrier | 23% |
| 2 barriers | 31% |
| 3 barriers | 17% |
| 4 barriers | 2% |
| 5 barriers | 10% |
| 6 barriers | 1% |
31% of Events Services sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 30% stack three or more. 16% carry none — a moderate share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Events Services sites are predominantly Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.40 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.40 and a median of Simple place Events Services toward the easier end of the sectors surveyed. 73% of sites are Simple to access; 8% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than two-thirds of Events Services sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 72.7% |
| 2 - Easy | 19.2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 4% |
| 4 - Complex | 3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Simple (73%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 92% of sites, while 4% land at Moderate and 4% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around two-thirds of Events Services sites publish any robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 65% |
Only 65% of Events Services sites have a valid robots.txt. Nearly 35% leave crawl policy undefined — one of the lower coverage rates across surveyed sectors.
Events Services's robots.txt files show moderate engagement with named bot policy
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 43% |
| 1 | 34% |
| 2–4 | 11% |
| 5–9 | 3% |
| 10–15 | 2% |
| 16+ | 7% |
A mean of 10.5 named agents reflects moderate bot-policy investment in Events Services. 43% of sites name no agents; 7% name 16 or more. The median of 1 suggests a bimodal split.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Events Services
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 12% |
| SEO / search indexing | 3% |
| SEO audit tools | 5% |
| Commercial scrapers | 1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 7% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers are named in 12% of Events Services robots.txt files, followed by Archive / research crawlers at 7%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Events Services robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 35% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 29% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 1% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 0% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 35%, with path-level mixed rules at 29%. Mixed AI posture (1%) and blanket Disallow (0%) are minimal.
008 leads named Disallow rules in Events Services robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 55% | 30% |
| 008 | 7% | — |
| Alexibot | 7% | — |
| Aqua_Products | 7% | — |
| BackDoorBot/1.0 | 7% | — |
| Balihoo | 7% | — |
| BlowFish/1.0 | 7% | — |
| BotALot | 7% | — |
| BotRightHere | 7% | — |
| BuiltBotTough | 7% | — |
| Bullseye/1.0 | 7% | — |
| BunnySlippers | 7% | — |
| CheeseBot | 7% | — |
| CherryPicker | 7% | — |
| CherryPickerElite/1.0 | 7% | — |
| CherryPickerSE/1.0 | 7% | — |
| Copernic | 7% | — |
| CopyRightCheck | 7% | — |
| Crescent | 7% | — |
| DittoSpyder | 7% | — |
| EmailCollector | 7% | — |
| EmailSiphon | 7% | — |
| EmailWolf | 7% | — |
| EroCrawler | 7% | — |
| ExtractorPro | 7% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Events Services sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 55% Disallow. Among named agents, 008, Alexibot, Aqua_Products are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Events Services is the most accessible sub-category in the Travel & Hospitality cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | 76% | 24% | 11% | 51% | 27% | 22% | 69% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Events Services | 83% | 17% | 21% | 41% | 26% | 12% | 65% | 3% | Tier 1 |
| Hospitality | 86% | 18% | 17% | 47% | 27% | 19% | 76% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Recreational Facilities | 95% | 23% | 21% | 51% | 21% | 11% | 71% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Restaurants | 91% | 28% | 19% | 57% | 41% | 15% | 50% | 5% | Tier 2 |
| Travel & Tourism | 81% | 27% | 8% | 55% | 31% | 26% | 78% | 21% | Tier 2 |
A median tier of Simple and mean of 1.32 make Events Services the easiest to access programmatically within Travel & Hospitality. WAF (83%) and AI blocking (3%) are below cohort peers.