Overview
Transportation & Logistics's WAF coverage is unusually low — active barriers carry the load
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 78% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 16% |
| JavaScript | 35% |
| Rate Limiting | 17% |
| TLS | 18% |
WAF covers only 78% of Transportation & Logistics sites, well below the global norm. JavaScript (35%) and TLS (18%) absorb the defensive weight in a sector that leans on active challenge layers over firewall coverage.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Transportation & Logistics at 78% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 78% |
| Antibot | 15% |
| CAPTCHA | 16% |
| JavaScript | 35% |
| Rate Limiting | 17% |
| TLS | 18% |
| Has robots.txt | 67% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 2% |
WAF dominates at 78%. JavaScript (35%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by TLS (18%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 17% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Transportation & Logistics's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 17% |
| 1 barrier | 28% |
| 2 barriers | 31% |
| 3 barriers | 13% |
| 4 barriers | 5% |
| 5 barriers | 6% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
31% of Transportation & Logistics sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 24% stack three or more. 17% carry none — a moderate share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Simple is the dominant access tier across Transportation & Logistics
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.56 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.56 and a median of Simple place Transportation & Logistics toward the easier end of the sectors surveyed. 55% of sites are Simple to access; 8% require Moderate or above.
Simple is the dominant tier in Transportation & Logistics, but Easy accounts for a significant share
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 55% |
| 2 - Easy | 37% |
| 3 - Moderate | 6% |
| 4 - Complex | 1% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Simple (55%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 92% of sites, while 6% land at Moderate and 2% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Around two-thirds of Transportation & Logistics sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 67% |
67% of Transportation & Logistics sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 33% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Most Transportation & Logistics sites name one bot or none in their robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 43% |
| 1 | 39% |
| 2–4 | 14% |
| 5–9 | 1% |
| 10–15 | 3% |
| 16+ | 0% |
43% of Transportation & Logistics sites name zero agents and 39% name one. A mean of 1.2 is pulled up by a small number of sites with extensive policies, while the median stays at 1.
SEO / search indexing draw the most robots.txt attention in Transportation & Logistics
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 4% |
| SEO / search indexing | 9% |
| SEO audit tools | 3% |
| Commercial scrapers | 0% |
| Social / content scrapers | 0% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO / search indexing are named in 9% of Transportation & Logistics robots.txt files, followed by AI crawlers at 4%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Transportation & Logistics robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 42% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 20% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 4% |
| Mixed AI posture | 2% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 42%, with path-level mixed rules at 20%. Mixed AI posture (2%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
Googlebot leads named Disallow rules in Transportation & Logistics robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 52% | 22% |
| Googlebot | 4% | 5% |
| AdsBot-Google | 2% | 5% |
| Yandex | 3% | 1% |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile | 1% | 2% |
| GPTBot | 1% | 2% |
| Google-Extended | 1% | 2% |
| OAI-SearchBot | 1% | 2% |
| Perplexity-User | 1% | 2% |
| PerplexityBot | 1% | 2% |
| BingBot | 1% | 1% |
| Amazonbot | 2% | — |
| EmailCollector | 2% | — |
| CCBot | 1% | 1% |
| AhrefsBot | 2% | — |
| Bingbot | 0% | 2% |
| ia_archiver | 1% | — |
| baiduspider | 1% | — |
| naverbot | 1% | — |
| yeti | 1% | — |
| Ant.com | 1% | — |
| Mechanize | 1% | — |
| Ask Jeeves/Teoma | 1% | — |
| SemrushBot | 1% | — |
| SemrushBot-SA | 1% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 Transportation & Logistics sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 52% Disallow. Among named agents, Googlebot, Yandex, AdsBot-Google are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Transportation & Logistics has the lowest WAF coverage in the Manufacturing & Logistics cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace & Defense | 87% | 17% | 26% | 36% | 21% | 15% | 67% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Chemicals | 83% | 8% | 19% | 31% | 7% | 8% | 71% | 8% | Tier 1 |
| Civil Engineering | 89% | 13% | 22% | 38% | 19% | 14% | 60% | 5% | Tier 1 |
| Import & Export | 93% | 19% | 17% | 35% | 17% | 13% | 69% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Machinery | 91% | 13% | 17% | 49% | 20% | 15% | 80% | 10% | Tier 2 |
| Mail & Package Delivery | 91% | 15% | 19% | 37% | 17% | 15% | 70% | 3% | Tier 1 |
| Manufacturing | 92% | 20% | 19% | 45% | 24% | 18% | 75% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Maritime | 87% | 22% | 24% | 41% | 19% | 12% | 62% | 8% | Tier 1 |
| Metals & Mining | 87% | 26% | 30% | 39% | 25% | 16% | 72% | 4% | Tier 1 |
| Plastics & Polymers | 98% | 10% | 29% | 34% | 13% | 10% | 80% | 4% | Tier 1 |
| Transportation & Logistics | 78% | 15% | 16% | 35% | 17% | 18% | 67% | 2% | Tier 1 |
| Warehousing | 98% | 18% | 27% | 38% | 22% | 8% | 75% | 4% | Tier 1 |
WAF at 78% is the lowest in the Manufacturing & Logistics cohort. JavaScript (35%) compensates as the leading active barrier. Tier difficulty (mean 1.50) sits above the cohort median.