Overview
JavaScript leads Information Technology's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 15% |
| JavaScript | 36% |
| Rate Limiting | 21% |
| TLS | 14% |
WAF at 94% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (36%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Information Technology a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Information Technology at 94% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 15% |
| JavaScript | 36% |
| Rate Limiting | 21% |
| TLS | 14% |
| Has robots.txt | 68% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 7% |
WAF dominates at 94%. JavaScript (36%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by Rate Limiting (21%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 15% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Information Technology's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3% |
| 1 barrier | 37% |
| 2 barriers | 38% |
| 3 barriers | 14% |
| 4 barriers | 2% |
| 5 barriers | 6% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
38% of Information Technology sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 22% stack three or more. 3% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Information Technology is predominantly Easy to access — with a notable Moderate minority
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.77 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.77 and a median of Easy place Information Technology around the middle of the sectors surveyed. 43% of sites are Simple to access; 19% require Moderate or above.
Simple and Easy cover most Information Technology sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 43.4% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 18.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (43%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 81% of sites, while 18% land at Moderate and 1% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around seven in ten of Information Technology sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 68% |
68% of Information Technology sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 32% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Most Information Technology sites name one bot or none in their robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 37% |
| 1 | 35% |
| 2–4 | 20% |
| 5–9 | 3% |
| 10–15 | 4% |
| 16+ | 1% |
37% of Information Technology sites name zero agents and 35% name one. A mean of 1.9 is pulled up by a small number of sites with extensive policies, while the median stays at 1.
SEO / search indexing and AI crawlers draw near-equal attention in Information Technology robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 12% |
| SEO audit tools | 2% |
| Commercial scrapers | 1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 5% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO / search indexing appears in 12% of Information Technology sites; AI crawlers in 9%. 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 Information Technology robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 34% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 32% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 1% |
| Mixed AI posture | 3% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 34%, with path-level mixed rules at 32%. Mixed AI posture (3%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
Yandex leads named Disallow rules in Information Technology robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 59% | 35% |
| Yandex | 6% | 2% |
| Googlebot | 4% | 3% |
| Twitterbot | 2% | 4% |
| ia_archiver | 5% | 1% |
| Baiduspider | 4% | 2% |
| AdsBot-Google | 3% | 2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 3% | 1% |
| ClaudeBot | 3% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 2% | 2% |
| PerplexityBot | 3% | 1% |
| Googlebot-Image | 2% | 1% |
| Mediapartners-Google | 1% | 2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 2% | 1% |
| 360Spider | 2% | 1% |
| GPTBot | 3% | — |
| AmazonAdBot | 1% | 2% |
| Applebot | 1% | 1% |
| yandex | 1% | 1% |
| CCBot | 1% | 1% |
| GoogleOther | 1% | 1% |
| Perplexity-User | 2% | — |
| MJ12bot | 2% | — |
| Slurp | 1% | 1% |
| *jndi* | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Information Technology sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 59% Disallow. Among named agents, Yandex, ia_archiver, Googlebot are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Information Technology sits mid-table within the Technology cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biotech | 89% | 13% | 19% | 39% | 17% | 13% | 76% | 14% | Tier 1 |
| Computer Software | 95% | 17% | 19% | 30% | 18% | 13% | 83% | 14% | Tier 2 |
| Information Technology | 94% | 13% | 15% | 36% | 21% | 14% | 68% | 7% | Tier 2 |
| Market Research | 94% | 16% | 22% | 44% | 25% | 14% | 71% | 0% | Tier 1 |
| Nanotechnology | 95% | 8% | 33% | 31% | 10% | 9% | 79% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Online Services | 93% | 9% | 16% | 50% | 19% | 12% | 86% | 36% | Tier 2 |
| Security Products & Services | 91% | 19% | 26% | 40% | 15% | 12% | 73% | 4% | Tier 1 |
Across Technology, Information Technology's barrier rates are broadly in line with peers. WAF at 94%, JavaScript at 36%, and AI blocking at 7% all sit near the cohort median. Tier difficulty (mean 1.67) is above the group average.