Overview
JavaScript leads Political Organizations's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 47% |
| Rate Limiting | 16% |
| TLS | 9% |
WAF at 97% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (47%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Political Organizations a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript is Political Organizations's dominant secondary barrier by a wide margin
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 97% |
| Antibot | 13% |
| CAPTCHA | 23% |
| JavaScript | 47% |
| Rate Limiting | 16% |
| TLS | 9% |
| Has robots.txt | 79% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 6% |
WAF at 97% and JavaScript at 47% together form the sector's main defensive layer. CAPTCHA (23%) follows at a distance. The barrier profile is concentrated rather than broadly spread.
Two-barrier stacks are Political Organizations's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 3% |
| 1 barrier | 32% |
| 2 barriers | 40% |
| 3 barriers | 14% |
| 4 barriers | 4% |
| 5 barriers | 7% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
40% of Political Organizations sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 25% stack three or more. 3% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Nearly all Political Organizations sites are Simple to access programmatically
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.16 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.16 and a median of Simple place Political Organizations among the most accessible sectors surveyed. 87% of sites are Simple to access; 3% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Political Organizations sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 87% |
| 2 - Easy | 10% |
| 3 - Moderate | 3% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 0% |
Simple (87%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 97% of sites, while 3% land at Moderate and 0% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Nearly four in five of Political Organizations sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 79% |
79% of Political Organizations sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 21% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Most Political Organizations sites name one bot or none in their robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 42% |
| 1 | 43% |
| 2–4 | 6% |
| 5–9 | 6% |
| 10–15 | 2% |
| 16+ | 1% |
42% of Political Organizations sites name zero agents and 43% name one. A mean of 1.5 is pulled up by a small number of sites with extensive policies, while the median stays at 1.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Political Organizations
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 8% |
| SEO / search indexing | 4% |
| SEO audit tools | 7% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 2% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 0% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 1% |
AI crawlers are named in 8% of Political Organizations robots.txt files, followed by SEO audit tools at 7%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Political Organizations robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 48% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 27% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 3% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 48%, with path-level mixed rules at 27%. Mixed AI posture (1%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in Political Organizations robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 51% | 30% |
| GPTBot | 6% | 2% |
| CCBot | 5% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 5% | 1% |
| AhrefsBot | 4% | 2% |
| ChatGPT-User | 3% | 2% |
| anthropic-ai | 3% | 1% |
| DotBot | 2% | 1% |
| Baiduspider | 1% | 2% |
| MJ12bot | 2% | 1% |
| Yandex | 1% | 2% |
| Googlebot | 1% | 2% |
| SemrushBot | 1% | 2% |
| Slurp | 1% | 2% |
| Twitterbot | 1% | 2% |
| with MovableInk | 1% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 1% | 1% |
| Claude-Web | 1% | 1% |
| PetalBot | 1% | 1% |
| FacebookBot | 2% | — |
| Omgilibot | 2% | — |
| Sogou web spider | 2% | — |
| bingbot | 1% | 1% |
| DuckDuckBot | 0% | 2% |
| Pixray-Seeker | 1% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Political Organizations sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 51% Disallow. Among named agents, GPTBot, CCBot lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
Political Organizations leads the Public Sector cohort on JavaScript deployment
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Government | 80% | 10% | 8% | 33% | 15% | 12% | 64% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Military | 77% | 11% | 16% | 21% | 19% | 17% | 62% | 7% | Tier 1 |
| Political Organizations | 97% | 13% | 23% | 47% | 16% | 9% | 79% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Public Policy | 96% | 9% | 9% | 28% | 11% | 9% | 86% | 8% | Tier 1 |
| Public Safety | 94% | 12% | 25% | 44% | 18% | 14% | 74% | 6% | Tier 1 |
Political Organizations's 47% JavaScript adoption rate leads all sub-categories in Public Sector. WAF (97%) is also near the top. Tier difficulty (mean 1.14) is in line with cohort peers.