Overview
Rate Limiting and JavaScript both elevate Jewelry & Luxury Products's active barrier profile
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 83% |
| Antibot | 28% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 41% |
| Rate Limiting | 42% |
| TLS | 34% |
WAF leads at 83%. Rate Limiting (42%) and JavaScript (41%) together form a multi-layer active stack — more than most sectors deploy alongside WAF.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Jewelry & Luxury Products at 83% — Rate Limiting is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 83% |
| Antibot | 28% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 41% |
| Rate Limiting | 42% |
| TLS | 34% |
| Has robots.txt | 80% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 9% |
WAF dominates at 83%. Rate Limiting (42%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by JavaScript (41%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 34% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Heavy barrier stacking is common in Jewelry & Luxury Products — most sites carry three or more
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3% |
| 1 barrier | 22% |
| 2 barriers | 27% |
| 3 barriers | 29% |
| 4 barriers | 9% |
| 5 barriers | 8% |
| 6 barriers | 2% |
48% of Jewelry & Luxury Products sites carry three or more barriers — well above the norm. Three-barrier stacks are most common. Just 3% of sites carry none.
Jewelry & Luxury Products is moderately challenging to access — harder than most sectors
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 2.32 |
A mean recommended tier of 2.32 and a median of Easy place Jewelry & Luxury Products toward the harder end of the sectors surveyed. 25% of sites are Simple to access; 34% require Moderate or above.
Easy is the most common access tier across Jewelry & Luxury Products sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 25% |
| 2 - Easy | 41% |
| 3 - Moderate | 17% |
| 4 - Complex | 11% |
| 5 - Advanced | 6% |
Easy (41%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 66% of sites, while 17% land at Moderate and 17% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Nearly four in five of Jewelry & Luxury Products sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 80% |
80% of Jewelry & Luxury Products sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 20% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Jewelry & Luxury Products's robots.txt files show moderate engagement with named bot policy
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 22% |
| 1 | 45% |
| 2–4 | 9% |
| 5–9 | 13% |
| 10–15 | 5% |
| 16+ | 6% |
A mean of 14.1 named agents reflects moderate bot-policy investment in Jewelry & Luxury Products. 22% of sites name no agents; 6% name 16 or more. The median of 1 suggests a bimodal split.
SEO crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Jewelry & Luxury Products
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 11% |
| SEO / search indexing | 18% |
| SEO audit tools | 18% |
| Commercial scrapers | 5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 1% |
SEO / search indexing and SEO audit tools lead at 18% each. AI crawlers follow at 11%. All figures are percentages of all 100 Jewelry & Luxury Products sites surveyed.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Jewelry & Luxury Products robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 42% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 37% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 1% |
| Mixed AI posture | 2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 0% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 42%, with path-level mixed rules at 37%. Mixed AI posture (2%) and blanket Disallow (0%) are minimal.
AhrefsBot leads named Disallow rules in Jewelry & Luxury Products robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 76% | 35% |
| AhrefsBot | 11% | 3% |
| AdsBot-Google | 5% | 6% |
| Googlebot | 6% | 5% |
| Baiduspider | 8% | 2% |
| MJ12bot | 9% | 1% |
| AhrefsSiteAudit | 6% | 3% |
| GPTBot | 6% | 3% |
| Nutch | 6% | — |
| Pinterestbot | 5% | 1% |
| Amazonbot | 4% | 2% |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | 2% |
| PetalBot | 5% | — |
| Baiduspider-image | 4% | 1% |
| Baiduspider-video | 4% | 1% |
| CazoodleBot | 5% | — |
| Gigabot | 5% | — |
| CCBot | 4% | 1% |
| PerplexityBot | 4% | 1% |
| Yandex | 3% | 1% |
| Mediapartners-Google | 1% | 3% |
| adsbot-google | 4% | — |
| magpie-crawler | 4% | — |
| dotbot | 4% | — |
| YoudaoBot | 4% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Jewelry & Luxury Products sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 76% Disallow. Among named agents, AhrefsBot, MJ12bot, Baiduspider are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Jewelry & Luxury Products has the lowest WAF coverage in the Retail & E-commerce cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 91% | 21% | 15% | 49% | 54% | 32% | 69% | 4% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 91% | 30% | 36% | 40% | 31% | 30% | 76% | 13% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 94% | 27% | 26% | 44% | 22% | 13% | 81% | 23% | Tier 1 |
| Computer Hardware | 93% | 30% | 20% | 42% | 33% | 15% | 73% | 13% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 86% | 13% | 17% | 34% | 18% | 15% | 73% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 92% | 27% | 27% | 46% | 29% | 20% | 83% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 96% | 27% | 31% | 41% | 26% | 14% | 68% | 8% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 92% | 24% | 26% | 51% | 31% | 11% | 68% | 23% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 97% | 33% | 28% | 49% | 40% | 21% | 67% | 5% | Tier 2 |
| Jewelry & Luxury | 83% | 28% | 23% | 41% | 42% | 34% | 80% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Packaging & Containers | 95% | 18% | 35% | 42% | 17% | 11% | 80% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Retail | 96% | 19% | 15% | 51% | 33% | 20% | 85% | 29% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 89% | 26% | 24% | 41% | 49% | 32% | 78% | 7% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 98% | 11% | 15% | 61% | 23% | 11% | 89% | 33% | Tier 1 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 92% | 6% | 38% | 35% | 17% | 14% | 78% | 7% | Tier 1 |
| Tobacco | 98% | 30% | 52% | 38% | 30% | 15% | 76% | 3% | Tier 1 |
| Wholesalers & Liquidators | 94% | 24% | 22% | 44% | 30% | 13% | 80% | 7% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 95% | 24% | 28% | 47% | 32% | 15% | 84% | 14% | Tier 1 |
WAF at 83% is the lowest in the Retail & E-commerce cohort. JavaScript (41%) compensates as the leading active barrier. Tier difficulty (mean 2.08) sits above the cohort median.