Overview
JavaScript leads Religion & Belief's secondary barrier stack above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96% |
| Antibot | 22% |
| CAPTCHA | 26% |
| JavaScript | 32% |
| Rate Limiting | 19% |
| TLS | 13% |
WAF at 96% is the dominant barrier. JavaScript (32%) leads secondary coverage. The remaining barriers sit materially lower, giving Religion & Belief a narrow but defined secondary layer.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Religion & Belief at 96% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 96% |
| Antibot | 22% |
| CAPTCHA | 26% |
| JavaScript | 32% |
| Rate Limiting | 19% |
| TLS | 13% |
| Has robots.txt | 89% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 10% |
WAF dominates at 96%. JavaScript (32%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by CAPTCHA (26%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 22% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Single-barrier configurations dominate Religion & Belief — mostly WAF alone
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 2% |
| 1 barrier | 41% |
| 2 barriers | 29% |
| 3 barriers | 14% |
| 4 barriers | 4% |
| 5 barriers | 9% |
| 6 barriers | 1% |
41% of Religion & Belief sites carry exactly one barrier — almost always WAF. Two-barrier stacks add 29%. Just 28% of sites layer three or more defences.
Religion & Belief sites are predominantly Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.32 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.32 and a median of Simple place Religion & Belief toward the easier end of the sectors surveyed. 77% of sites are Simple to access; 5% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of Religion & Belief sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 77% |
| 2 - Easy | 18% |
| 3 - Moderate | 3% |
| 4 - Complex | 0% |
| 5 - Advanced | 2% |
Simple (77%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 95% of sites, while 3% land at Moderate and 2% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Most Religion & Belief sites publish a robots.txt — coverage above the norm
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 89% |
89% of Religion & Belief sites publish a valid robots.txt. The 11% without a file leave crawl policy undefined — a lower gap than the cross-sector average of around 24%.
Religion & Belief sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 29% |
| 1 | 50% |
| 2–4 | 10% |
| 5–9 | 7% |
| 10–15 | 2% |
| 16+ | 2% |
The mean of 3.2 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Religion & Belief. 29% of sites name no agents; 50% name exactly one. Only 2% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in Religion & Belief
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 11% |
| SEO / search indexing | 4% |
| SEO audit tools | 3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 3% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 5% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers are named in 11% of Religion & Belief robots.txt files, followed by Archive / research crawlers at 5%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Religion & Belief robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 57% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 27% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 4% |
| Mixed AI posture | 1% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 57%, 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 Religion & Belief robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 60% | 33% |
| GPTBot | 8% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 4% | 1% |
| Bytespider | 4% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 4% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 4% | — |
| Amazonbot | 3% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 3% | — |
| CCBot | 3% | — |
| Googlebot | 2% | 1% |
| WebCopier | 3% | — |
| wget | 3% | — |
| anthropic-ai | 2% | 1% |
| Baiduspider | 2% | — |
| HTTrack | 2% | — |
| MSIECrawler | 2% | — |
| Slurp | 2% | — |
| GetRight/4.2 | 2% | — |
| HTTrack 3.0 | 2% | — |
| Harvest/1.5 | 2% | — |
| LinkextractorPro | 2% | — |
| NetAnts | 2% | — |
| Offline Explorer | 2% | — |
| SiteSnagger | 2% | — |
| Web Image Collector | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Religion & Belief sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 60% Disallow. Among named agents, GPTBot, Google-Extended lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
Religion & Belief sits mid-table within the Nonprofit cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Museums | 95% | 27% | 32% | 43% | 22% | 13% | 78% | 13% | Tier 1 |
| Nonprofit Organizations | 96% | 18% | 19% | 45% | 24% | 17% | 83% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Religion & Belief | 96% | 22% | 26% | 32% | 19% | 13% | 89% | 10% | Tier 1 |
| Social & Charitable Organizations | 94% | 22% | 31% | 38% | 20% | 11% | 79% | 5% | Tier 1 |
Across Nonprofit, Religion & Belief's barrier rates are broadly in line with peers. WAF at 96%, JavaScript at 32%, and AI blocking at 10% all sit near the cohort median. Tier difficulty (mean 1.23) is below the group average.