Overview
JavaScript leads Performing Arts's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 11% |
| CAPTCHA | 19% |
| JavaScript | 39% |
| Rate Limiting | 19% |
| TLS | 11% |
WAF at 93% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (39%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Performing Arts a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Performing Arts at 93% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 93% |
| Antibot | 11% |
| CAPTCHA | 19% |
| JavaScript | 39% |
| Rate Limiting | 19% |
| TLS | 11% |
| Has robots.txt | 75% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 7% |
WAF dominates at 93%. JavaScript (39%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by Rate Limiting (19%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 19% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Performing Arts's barrier counts are spread — no single configuration dominates
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 6% |
| 1 barrier | 38% |
| 2 barriers | 31% |
| 3 barriers | 15% |
| 4 barriers | 3% |
| 5 barriers | 7% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
Barrier counts vary widely across Performing Arts sites. Single-barrier configurations are the modal count at 38%, but the distribution is broad. 25% of sites carry three or more.
Nearly all Performing Arts sites are Simple to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.12 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.12 and a median of Simple place Performing Arts among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 90% of sites are Simple to access; 2% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Performing Arts sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 90% |
| 2 - Easy | 8% |
| 3 - Moderate | 2% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (90%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 98% of sites, while 2% land at Moderate and 0% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around three-quarters of Performing Arts sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 75% |
75% of Performing Arts sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 25% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Performing Arts sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 34% |
| 1 | 45% |
| 2–4 | 10% |
| 5–9 | 5% |
| 10–15 | 4% |
| 16+ | 2% |
The mean of 4.0 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Performing Arts. 34% of sites name no agents; 45% name exactly one. Only 2% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Performing Arts
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 5% |
| SEO audit tools | 4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 3% |
| Social / content scrapers | 0% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 2% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers are named in 9% of Performing Arts robots.txt files, followed by SEO / search indexing at 5%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Performing Arts robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 43% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 28% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 43%, with path-level mixed rules at 28%. Mixed AI posture (0%) and blanket Disallow (2%) are minimal.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in Performing Arts robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 57% | 31% |
| Bytespider | 5% | — |
| dotbot | 3% | 1% |
| Applebot-Extended | 4% | — |
| Google-Extended | 4% | — |
| GPTBot | 4% | — |
| Amazonbot | 4% | — |
| CCBot | 4% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | — |
| TurnitinBot | 4% | — |
| AhrefsBot | 3% | — |
| BLEXBot | 3% | — |
| MJ12bot | 3% | — |
| Yandex | 2% | 1% |
| meta-externalagent | 3% | — |
| psbot | 3% | — |
| SemrushBot | 2% | — |
| SemrushBot-SA | 2% | — |
| Googlebot-News | 1% | 1% |
| AdsBot-Google | 1% | 1% |
| BUbiNG | 2% | — |
| Scrapy | 2% | — |
| magpie-crawler | 2% | — |
| MSIECrawler | 2% | — |
| Offline Explorer | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Performing Arts sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 57% Disallow. Among named agents, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
Performing Arts has the lowest WAF coverage in the Design & Creative Arts cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architecture | 95% | 21% | 33% | 40% | 20% | 10% | 84% | 12% | Tier 1 |
| Ceramics & Pottery | 97% | 16% | 38% | 47% | 17% | 12% | 77% | 5% | Tier 1 |
| Comics & Animation | 93% | 15% | 28% | 34% | 10% | 7% | 77% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Crafts | 98% | 21% | 34% | 44% | 24% | 12% | 82% | 18% | Tier 1 |
| Design | 99% | 24% | 27% | 40% | 21% | 11% | 89% | 14% | Tier 1 |
| Graphic Design | 99% | 11% | 21% | 19% | 12% | 9% | 87% | 9% | Tier 1 |
| Performing Arts | 93% | 11% | 19% | 39% | 19% | 11% | 75% | 7% | Tier 1 |
| Photography | 95% | 19% | 28% | 42% | 42% | 32% | 68% | 15% | Tier 1 |
| Printing | 98% | 19% | 28% | 34% | 13% | 10% | 81% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Visual Art | 98% | 20% | 31% | 43% | 20% | 10% | 84% | 22% | Tier 1 |
WAF at 93% is the lowest in the Design & Creative Arts cohort. JavaScript (39%) compensates as the leading active barrier. Tier difficulty (mean 1.12) sits above the cohort median.