Overview
CAPTCHA leads Farms & Ranches's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96% |
| Antibot | 12% |
| CAPTCHA | 32% |
| JavaScript | 26% |
| Rate Limiting | 24% |
| TLS | 14% |
WAF at 96% is the dominant barrier. CAPTCHA (32%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Farms & Ranches a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Farms & Ranches at 96% — CAPTCHA is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96% |
| Antibot | 12% |
| CAPTCHA | 32% |
| JavaScript | 26% |
| Rate Limiting | 24% |
| TLS | 14% |
| Has robots.txt | 67% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 6% |
WAF dominates at 96%. CAPTCHA (32%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by JavaScript (26%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 24% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Farms & Ranches's barrier counts are spread — no single configuration dominates
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 4% |
| 1 barrier | 37% |
| 2 barriers | 33% |
| 3 barriers | 13% |
| 4 barriers | 4% |
| 5 barriers | 8% |
| 6 barriers | 1% |
Barrier counts vary widely across Farms & Ranches sites. Single-barrier configurations are the modal count at 37%, but the distribution is broad. 26% of sites carry three or more.
Nearly all Farms & Ranches sites are Simple to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.02 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.02 and a median of Simple place Farms & Ranches among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 98% of sites are Simple to access; 0% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Farms & Ranches sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 98% |
| 2 - Easy | 2% |
| 3 - Moderate | 0% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (98%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 100% of sites, while 0% land at Moderate and 0% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around two-thirds of Farms & Ranches sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 67% |
67% of Farms & Ranches sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 33% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Most Farms & Ranches sites name one bot or none in their robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 50% |
| 1 | 28% |
| 2–4 | 8% |
| 5–9 | 12% |
| 10–15 | 1% |
| 16+ | 1% |
50% of Farms & Ranches sites name zero agents and 28% name one. A mean of 1.7 is pulled up by a small number of sites with extensive policies, while the median stays at 0.
SEO audit tools lead Farms & Ranches's robots.txt mentions ahead of AI crawlers
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 7% |
| SEO / search indexing | 5% |
| SEO audit tools | 11% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 0% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO audit tools are mentioned by 11% of Farms & Ranches sites — the leading bot category, ahead of AI crawlers at 7%. Figures are percentages of all 100 sites surveyed.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Farms & Ranches robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 37% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 28% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 1% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 37%, with path-level mixed rules at 28%. Mixed AI posture (1%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
A cluster of three agents lead named Disallow rules in Farms & Ranches robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 46% | 32% |
| GPTBot | 6% | 1% |
| MJ12bot | 6% | — |
| NerdyBot | 6% | — |
| AdsBot-Google | 5% | 1% |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile | 5% | 1% |
| 008 | 5% | — |
| Baiduspiders | 5% | — |
| WBSearchBot | 5% | — |
| Googlebot | 3% | 2% |
| CCBot | 4% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | 1% |
| Amazonbot | 3% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 3% | 1% |
| PetalBot | 3% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 2% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 2% | 1% |
| FacebookBot | 1% | 2% |
| Yandex | 2% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 1% | 1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 2% | — |
| AhrefsBot | 2% | — |
| AhrefsSiteAudit | 2% | — |
| Nutch | 2% | — |
| adsbot-google | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Farms & Ranches sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 46% Disallow. Among named agents, GPTBot, MJ12bot, and NerdyBot share the top position at 6% Disallow each.
Industry Cohort
Farms & Ranches sits mid-table within the Agriculture cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | 97% | 12% | 30% | 41% | 20% | 12% | 90% | 12% | Tier 1 |
| Farms & Ranches | 96% | 12% | 32% | 26% | 24% | 14% | 67% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Fishery | 96% | 13% | 37% | 32% | 18% | 9% | 69% | 3% | Tier 1 |
Across Agriculture, Farms & Ranches's barrier rates are broadly in line with peers. WAF at 96%, JavaScript at 26%, and AI blocking at 6% all sit near the cohort median. Tier difficulty (mean 1.01) is above the group average.