User-agent: *

# 1. Crawl Budget Optimization: Disallow utility & non-content pages
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /api
Disallow: /404
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/

# 2. Prevent Index Bloat: Block data and logic files
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*.mjs$
Disallow: /*.map$
Disallow: /qr-code-widget.js

# 3. Prevent Crawl Traps: Eliminate duplicate content loops from query strings
# This ensures bots don't waste time on ?utm_source= or ?ref= variations
Disallow: /*?*

# 4. Explicitly allow assets (Standard practice to override broad disallows)
Allow: /_astro/*.css
Allow: /_astro/*.js
Allow: /images/

# 5. Global Sitemap
Sitemap: https://qrtrac.com/sitemap.xml

# 6. AI/LLM Discovery (Commented to prevent Google Search Console errors)
# Reference: https://llmstxt.org/
# llms: https://qrtrac.com/llms.txt