Overview
JavaScript and Rate Limiting both elevate Wholesalers & Liquidators's active barrier profile
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 24% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 44% |
| Rate Limiting | 30% |
| TLS | 13% |
WAF leads at 94%. JavaScript (44%) and Rate Limiting (30%) together form a multi-layer active stack — more than most sectors deploy alongside WAF.
Barrier Landscape
WAF leads Wholesalers & Liquidators at 94% — JavaScript is the main secondary layer
| Value | |
|---|---|
| WAF | 94% |
| Antibot | 24% |
| CAPTCHA | 22% |
| JavaScript | 44% |
| Rate Limiting | 30% |
| TLS | 13% |
| Has robots.txt | 80% |
| Blocks AI crawlers | 7% |
WAF dominates at 94%. JavaScript (44%) leads active secondary barriers, followed by Rate Limiting (30%). The remaining three barriers all sit at or below 24% — a concentrated rather than broadly stacked profile.
Two-barrier stacks are Wholesalers & Liquidators's most common security posture
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 barriers | 5% |
| 1 barrier | 28% |
| 2 barriers | 29% |
| 3 barriers | 20% |
| 4 barriers | 9% |
| 5 barriers | 9% |
| 6 barriers | 0% |
29% of Wholesalers & Liquidators sites carry exactly 2 barriers. 38% stack three or more. 5% carry none — a low share of unprotected sites for this sector.
Wholesalers & Liquidators is predominantly Easy to access — with a notable Moderate minority
| Mean recommended tier | |
|---|---|
| All sites | 1.97 |
A mean recommended tier of 1.97 and a median of Easy place Wholesalers & Liquidators around the middle of the sectors surveyed. 35% of sites are Simple to access; 21% require Moderate or above.
Easy is the most common access tier across Wholesalers & Liquidators sites
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 1 - Simple | 35% |
| 2 - Easy | 44% |
| 3 - Moderate | 13% |
| 4 - Complex | 5% |
| 5 - Advanced | 3% |
Easy (44%) is the most common tier. Simple and Easy together account for 79% of sites, while 13% land at Moderate and 8% at Complex or Advanced.
robots.txt
Nearly four in five of Wholesalers & Liquidators sites publish a robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Publish a valid robots.txt | 80% |
80% of Wholesalers & Liquidators sites have a valid robots.txt. The remaining 20% leave crawl policy entirely undefined — a meaningful gap for a sector of this scale.
Wholesalers & Liquidators sites name a handful of agents in robots.txt — few commit to comprehensive policies
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| 0 | 24% |
| 1 | 37% |
| 2–4 | 22% |
| 5–9 | 11% |
| 10–15 | 2% |
| 16+ | 4% |
The mean of 3.7 named agents reflects limited bot-policy investment in Wholesalers & Liquidators. 24% of sites name no agents; 37% name exactly one. Only 4% maintain a list of 16 or more named bots.
SEO audit tools and SEO / search indexing draw near-equal attention in Wholesalers & Liquidators robots.txt
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| AI crawlers | 9% |
| SEO / search indexing | 13% |
| SEO audit tools | 15% |
| Commercial scrapers | 1% |
| Social / content scrapers | 1% |
| Archive / research crawlers | 4% |
| Monitoring / uptime bots | 0% |
SEO audit tools appears in 15% of Wholesalers & Liquidators sites; SEO / search indexing in 13%. The near-equal split reflects a sector that treats both categories with comparable priority. Figures are percentages of all 100 sites.
Uniform per-agent rules dominate Wholesalers & Liquidators robots.txt files
| % of sites | |
|---|---|
| Uniform per-agent rules | 46% |
| Path-level mixed rules | 32% |
| Allow-only (no Disallow rules) | 1% |
| Mixed AI posture | 0% |
| Blanket Disallow: / | 1% |
Uniform per-agent rules lead at 46%, with path-level mixed rules at 32%. Mixed AI posture (0%) and blanket Disallow (1%) are minimal.
MJ12bot leads named Disallow rules in Wholesalers & Liquidators robots.txt
| Disallowed | Allowed (whitelisted) | |
|---|---|---|
| * | 71% | 31% |
| AdsBot-Google | 6% | 4% |
| MJ12bot | 8% | — |
| SemrushBot | 6% | — |
| Googlebot | 4% | 2% |
| AhrefsBot | 5% | — |
| Yandex | 5% | — |
| CazoodleBot | 5% | — |
| Gigabot | 5% | — |
| ChatGPT-User | 3% | 1% |
| GPTBot | 3% | 1% |
| PetalBot | 4% | — |
| bingbot | 3% | 1% |
| BLEXBot | 4% | — |
| CCBot | 3% | 1% |
| dotbot/1.0 | 4% | — |
| AdsBot-Google-Mobile | 2% | 2% |
| ia_archiver | 4% | — |
| Amazonbot | 3% | — |
| Cliqzbot | 3% | — |
| SEOkicks-Robot | 3% | — |
| ClaudeBot | 2% | 1% |
| Googlebot-Image | 2% | 1% |
| Scrapy | 2% | 1% |
| Google-Extended | 1% | 1% |
Values are percentages of all 100 Wholesalers & Liquidators sites surveyed. The wildcard (*) leads at 71% Disallow. Among named agents, MJ12bot, AdsBot-Google, SemrushBot are the most frequently targeted — focused on non-AI crawlers.
Industry Cohort
Wholesalers & Liquidators sits mid-table within the Retail & E-commerce cohort
| WAF | Antibot | CAPTCHA | JavaScript | Rate Limit | TLS | robots.txt | Blocks AI | Tier | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & Fashion | 91% | 21% | 15% | 49% | 54% | 32% | 69% | 4% | Tier 3 |
| Beauty & Cosmetics | 91% | 30% | 36% | 40% | 31% | 30% | 76% | 13% | Tier 2 |
| Computer & Video Games | 94% | 27% | 26% | 44% | 22% | 13% | 81% | 23% | Tier 1 |
| Computer Hardware | 93% | 30% | 20% | 42% | 33% | 15% | 73% | 13% | Tier 2 |
| Computers & Electronics | 86% | 13% | 17% | 34% | 18% | 15% | 73% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Consumer Electronics | 92% | 27% | 27% | 46% | 29% | 20% | 83% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Equipment & Supplies | 96% | 27% | 31% | 41% | 26% | 14% | 68% | 8% | Tier 2 |
| Food & Beverages | 92% | 24% | 26% | 51% | 31% | 11% | 68% | 23% | Tier 2 |
| Furniture | 97% | 33% | 28% | 49% | 40% | 21% | 67% | 5% | Tier 2 |
| Jewelry & Luxury | 83% | 28% | 23% | 41% | 42% | 34% | 80% | 9% | Tier 2 |
| Packaging & Containers | 95% | 18% | 35% | 42% | 17% | 11% | 80% | 6% | Tier 1 |
| Retail | 96% | 19% | 15% | 51% | 33% | 20% | 85% | 29% | Tier 2 |
| Sporting Goods | 89% | 26% | 24% | 41% | 49% | 32% | 78% | 7% | Tier 2 |
| Sports | 98% | 11% | 15% | 61% | 23% | 11% | 89% | 33% | Tier 1 |
| Textiles & Nonwovens | 92% | 6% | 38% | 35% | 17% | 14% | 78% | 7% | Tier 1 |
| Tobacco | 98% | 30% | 52% | 38% | 30% | 15% | 76% | 3% | Tier 1 |
| Wholesalers & Liquidators | 94% | 24% | 22% | 44% | 30% | 13% | 80% | 7% | Tier 2 |
| Wine & Spirits | 95% | 24% | 28% | 47% | 32% | 15% | 84% | 14% | Tier 1 |
Across Retail & E-commerce, Wholesalers & Liquidators's barrier rates are broadly in line with peers. WAF at 94%, JavaScript at 44%, and AI blocking at 7% all sit near the cohort median. Tier difficulty (mean 1.83) is above the group average.