Overview
JavaScript is TV & Movies's defining access barrier, well above the norm
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 99% |
| Antibot | 30% |
| CAPTCHA | 25% |
| JavaScript | 59% |
| Rate Limiting | 33% |
| TLS | 13% |
WAF is near-universal at 99%. JavaScript at 59% stands far above the sector's other barriers. Rate Limiting (33%) is the only other active layer with meaningful coverage.
Barrier Landscape
JavaScript and Rate Limiting define TV & Movies's layered active defences
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 99% |
| Antibot | 30% |
| CAPTCHA | 25% |
| JavaScript | 59% |
| Rate Limiting | 33% |
| TLS | 13% |
| Has robots.txt | 70% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 11% |
WAF leads at 99%. JavaScript (59%) and Rate Limiting (33%) are both well above the cross-sector norm, giving TV & Movies a markedly heavier active barrier profile than most sectors.
Two-barrier stacks are TV & Movies's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 1% |
| 1 barrier | 19% |
| 2 barriers | 37% |
| 3 barriers | 17% |
| 4 barriers | 17% |
| 5 barriers | 7% |
| 6 barriers | 2% |
37% of TV & Movies sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 43% stack three or more. 1% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
TV & Movies sites are predominantly Simple to access
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.39 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.39 and a median of Simple place TV & Movies toward the easier end of the sectors surveyed. 72% of sites are Simple to access; 6% require Moderate or above.
Simple tier covers more than three-quarters of TV & Movies sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 72% |
| 2 - Easy | 22% |
| 3 - Moderate | 2% |
| 4 - Complex | 3% |
| 5 - Advanced | 1% |
Simple (72%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 94% of sites, while 2% land at Moderate and 4% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Seven in ten TV & Movies sites have a robots.txt file
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 70% |
70% of TV & Movies sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 30% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
TV & Movies sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 35% |
| 1 | 50% |
| 2–4 | 3% |
| 5–9 | 7% |
| 10–15 | 2% |
| 16+ | 3% |
The mean of 2.8 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in TV & Movies. 35% of sites name no agents; 50% name exactly one. Only 3% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
AI crawlers draw the most robots.txt attention in TV & Movies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 11% |
| SEO / search indexing | 4% |
| SEO audit tools | 4% |
| Commercial scrapers | 5% |
| Social / content scrapers | 0% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 1% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
AI crawlers are named in 11% of TV & Movies robots.txt files, followed by Commercial scrapers at 5%. All figures are percentages of all 100 sites including those with no robots.txt.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate TV & Movies robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 49% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 18% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 3% |
| Mixed AI posture | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 0% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 49%, with path-level mixed rules at 18%. Mixed AI posture (0%) and blanket Disallow (0%) are minimal.
AI crawlers are among the most-targeted agents in TV & Movies robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 60% | 22% |
| GPTBot | 11% | — |
| Bytespider | 10% | — |
| CCBot | 10% | — |
| Google-Extended | 10% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 9% | — |
| Amazonbot | 9% | — |
| Applebot-Extended | 8% | — |
| meta-externalagent | 7% | — |
| Diffbot | 4% | — |
| Claude-Web | 4% | — |
| anthropic-ai | 4% | — |
| FacebookBot | 3% | — |
| PetalBot | 3% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 3% | — |
| ImagesiftBot | 3% | — |
| PerplexityBot | 3% | — |
| YouBot | 3% | — |
| cohere-ai | 3% | — |
| AI2Bot | 2% | — |
| Cotoyogi | 2% | — |
| Datenbank Crawler | 2% | — |
| Factset_spyderbot | 2% | — |
| ICC-Crawler | 2% | — |
| Kangaroo Bot | 2% | — |
Values are percentages of all 100 TV & Movies sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 60% Disallow. Among named agents, GPTBot, Bytespider lead the Disallow list — reflecting direct targeting of AI training and indexing bots.
Industry Cohort
TV & Movies leads the Entertainment cohort on JavaScript deployment
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adult | 98% | 36% | 33% | 36% | 34% | 20% | 85% | 9% | Tier 1 |
| Entertainment | 92% | 17% | 18% | 46% | 23% | 13% | 77% | 30% | Tier 2 |
| Gambling | 95% | 31% | 24% | 53% | 35% | 14% | 57% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Music | 96% | 21% | 19% | 52% | 26% | 12% | 84% | 25% | Tier 2 |
| TV & Movies | 99% | 30% | 25% | 59% | 33% | 13% | 70% | 11% | Tier 1 |
TV & Movies's 59% JavaScript adoption rate leads all sub-categories in Entertainment. WAF (99%) is also near the top. Tier difficulty (mean 1.26) is elevated.