Overview
Real Estate stacks all six barrier types above 15% — a broad defensive spread
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 24% |
| CAPTCHA | 19% |
| JavaScript | 48% |
| Rate Limiting | 39% |
| TLS | 15% |
Real Estate deploys all six barriers at meaningful rates: WAF (92%), JS (48%), Rate Limiting (39%), Antibot (24%), CAPTCHA (19%) and TLS (15%). No barrier sits near zero. This broad spread distinguishes Real Estate from sectors that rely on a narrower defensive layer.
Barrier Landscape
Real Estate deploys all six barrier types above 15%
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 92% |
| Antibot | 24% |
| CAPTCHA | 19% |
| JavaScript | 48% |
| Rate Limiting | 39% |
| TLS | 15% |
| Has robots.txt | 75% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 17% |
WAF leads at 92%, followed by JavaScript (48%) and Rate Limiting (39%). Antibot (24%), CAPTCHA (19%) and TLS (15%) all register meaningfully. Real Estate is one of the more broadly defended sectors in this batch.
Three-barrier stacks are Real Estate's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5% |
| 1 barrier | 26% |
| 2 barriers | 23% |
| 3 barriers | 31% |
| 4 barriers | 5% |
| 5 barriers | 8% |
| 6 barriers | 2% |
31% of Real Estate sites carry exactly three barriers — the modal count. 10% carry five or six, the highest rate in this batch. Only 5% carry none. Real Estate shows a consistent pattern of layered defences.
Real Estate is the hardest sector to scrape in this batch
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 2.38 |
A mean recommended tier of 2.38 and a median of Easy place Real Estate toward the harder end of the sectors surveyed. 25% of sites are Simple to access; 37% require Moderate or above.
Easy tier leads Real Estate, with a meaningful Complex and Advanced tail
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 25.3% |
| 2 - Easy | 37.4% |
| 3 - Moderate | 16.2% |
| 4 - Complex | 17.2% |
| 5 - Advanced | 4% |
Easy (37%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 63% of sites, while 16% land at Moderate and 21% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Three in four Real Estate sites publish a valid robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 75% |
75% of Real Estate sites have a valid robots.txt — higher than most sectors in this batch. The 25% without a file leave crawl policy undefined.
Real Estate sites name far more bot agents than most — a mean of 24 per site
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 27% |
| 1 | 28% |
| 2–4 | 14% |
| 5–9 | 8% |
| 10–15 | 13% |
| 16+ | 10% |
A mean of 24.3 named agents per site is driven by a cohort of comprehensive robot policies; 10% of sites name 16 or more agents. The median stays at 1, meaning most sites are sparse — but the outliers are extensive.
AI crawlers and search indexers receive equal attention in Real Estate robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 20% |
| SEO / search indexing | 20% |
| SEO audit tools | 11% |
| Commercial scrapers | 4% |
| Social / content scrapers | 3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 9% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers and SEO / search indexing bots are each mentioned by 20% of Real Estate sites — the joint-highest categories. Archive crawlers (9%) and SEO audit tools (11%) also see meaningful engagement, reflecting a sector with broad awareness of bot taxonomy.
Path-level rules dominate Real Estate robots.txt, with a notable mixed-AI minority
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 28% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 43% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 2% |
| Mixed AI posture | 11% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 2% |
Path-level mixed rules lead at 43%, with uniform per-agent rules at 28%. A mixed AI posture — blocking some AI crawlers while allowing others — appears in 11% of sites, the highest rate in this batch, reflecting selective AI access rather than blanket policy.
Real Estate uniquely allows and blocks AI crawlers at similar rates
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 70% | 43% |
| ClaudeBot | 14% | 10% |
| GPTBot | 14% | 10% |
| ChatGPT-User | 10% | 12% |
| PerplexityBot | 9% | 11% |
| anthropic-ai | 11% | 9% |
| Googlebot | 10% | 9% |
| cohere-ai | 10% | 8% |
| Baiduspider | 9% | 8% |
| Bingbot | 8% | 9% |
| YandexBot | 8% | 8% |
| meta-externalagent | 8% | 7% |
| ImagesiftBot | 8% | 7% |
| OAI-Searchbot | 7% | 7% |
| AdsBot-Google | 7% | 6% |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile | 5% | 6% |
| MJ12bot | 11% | — |
| Mediapartners-Google | 3% | 5% |
| bingbot | 6% | 2% |
| trovitBot | 7% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 4% | 3% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 2% | 5% |
| Slurp | 5% | 2% |
| Exabot | 6% | 1% |
| ia_archiver | 4% | 2% |
Values are percentages of all 100 Real Estate sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 70% Disallow. ClaudeBot and GPTBot each appear at 14% Disallow — but also around 10% Allow, reflecting the sector's 11% mixed AI posture: targeted restriction, not blanket blocking.