Overview
JavaScript leads Medical Devices & Equipment's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 45% |
| Rate Limiting | 16% |
| TLS | 8% |
WAF at 92% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (45%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Medical Devices & Equipment a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Medical Devices & Equipment at 92% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 45% |
| Rate Limiting | 16% |
| TLS | 8% |
| Has robots.txt | 81% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 8% |
WAF dominates at 92%. JavaScript (45%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (22%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 16% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Medical Devices & Equipment's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 6% |
| 1 barrier | 27% |
| 2 barriers | 43% |
| 3 barriers | 15% |
| 4 barriers | 7% |
| 5 barriers | 2% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
43% of Medical Devices & Equipment sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 24% stack three or more. 6% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Simple is the dominant access tier across Medical Devices & Equipment
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.53 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.53 and a median of Simple place Medical Devices & Equipment toward the easier end of the sectors surveyed. 59% of sites are Simple to access; 9% require Moderate or above.
Simple is the dominant tier in Medical Devices & Equipment, but Easy accounts for a significant share
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 59% |
| 2 - Easy | 32% |
| 3 - Moderate | 7% |
| 4 - Complex | 1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Simple (59%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 91% of sites, while 7% land at Moderate and 2% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Most Medical Devices & Equipment sites publish a robots.txt — coverage above the norm
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 81% |
81% of Medical Devices & Equipment sites publish a valid robots.txt. The 19% without a file leave crawl policy undefined — a lower gap than the cross-sector average of around 24%.
Medical Devices & Equipment sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 28% |
| 1 | 48% |
| 2–4 | 11% |
| 5–9 | 5% |
| 10–15 | 1% |
| 16+ | 7% |
The mean of 3.5 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Medical Devices & Equipment. 28% of sites name no agents; 48% name exactly one. Only 7% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
SEO audit tools and AI crawlers draw near-equal attention in Medical Devices & Equipment robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 11% |
| SEO / search indexing | 6% |
| SEO audit tools | 12% |
| Commercial scrapers | 3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO audit tools appears in 12% of Medical Devices & Equipment sites; AI crawlers in 11%. 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 Medical Devices & Equipment robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 56% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 19% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 4% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 56%, with path-level mixed rules at 19%. Mixed AI posture (1%) and blanket Disallow (2%) are minimal.
AhrefsBot leads named Disallow rules in Medical Devices & Equipment robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 63% | 23% |
| AhrefsBot | 10% | 1% |
| GPTBot | 6% | 3% |
| AhrefsSiteAudit | 7% | 1% |
| ChatGPT-User | 4% | 3% |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | 2% |
| Google-Extended | 5% | 1% |
| Nutch | 6% | — |
| adsbot-google | 6% | — |
| OAI-SearchBot | 2% | 3% |
| Googlebot | 2% | 2% |
| CCBot | 3% | 1% |
| DuckAssistBot | 2% | 2% |
| Amazonbot | 3% | 1% |
| Claude-Web | 2% | 1% |
| PerplexityBot | 2% | 1% |
| Googlebot-Image | 1% | 2% |
| AdsBot-Google | 1% | 2% |
| Googlebot-Mobile | 0% | 3% |
| Baiduspider | 2% | — |
| Bingbot | 2% | — |
| Bingbot-Copilot | 1% | 1% |
| DuckDuckBot | 2% | — |
| Facebookbot | 1% | 1% |
| Perplexity-bot | 1% | 1% |
Values are percentages of all 100 Medical Devices & Equipment sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 63% Disallow. Among named agents, AhrefsBot leads the Disallow list at 10%.
Industry Cohort
Medical Devices & Equipment is the most accessible sub-category in the Healthcare cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare | 93% | 17% | 21% | 35% | 27% | 21% | 78% | 14% | Tier 2 |
| Medical Devices & Equipment | 92% | 13% | 22% | 45% | 16% | 8% | 81% | 8% | Tier 1 |
| Mental Health | 95% | 16% | 24% | 40% | 18% | 6% | 85% | 12% | Tier 1 |
| Pharmaceuticals | 84% | 20% | 25% | 54% | 27% | 8% | 62% | 5% | Tier 1 |
| Veterinary | 100% | 24% | 29% | 43% | 35% | 25% | 89% | 5% | Tier 1 |
| Wellness | 98% | 23% | 31% | 48% | 34% | 16% | 83% | 22% | Tier 2 |
A median tier of Simple and mean of 1.50 make Medical Devices & Equipment the easiest to access programmatically within Healthcare. WAF (92%) and AI blocking (8%) are below cohort peers.