Disallow expensive pages via robots.txt#3654
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Scrapers frequently target expensive pages such as `testOverview.php`, and pages which are not meaningful to index such as `/tests/<id>` and `/builds/<id>/*`, which adds significant load to public-facing CDash instances. This attempts to address the issue by requesting that bots not index these pages.
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Scrapers frequently target expensive pages such as
testOverview.php, and pages which are not meaningful to index such as/tests/<id>and/builds/<id>/*, which adds significant load to public-facing CDash instances. This attempts to address the issue by requesting that bots not index these pages.