diff --git a/app/analytics.tsx b/app/analytics.tsx
index 10c72e97..3861f62c 100644
--- a/app/analytics.tsx
+++ b/app/analytics.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 import Script from "next/script";
 
 const Analytics = () => {
-  if (!process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_WEBSITE_ID || process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_ENV !== "production") {
+  if (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_ENV !== "production") {
+    return null;
+  }
+
+  if (!process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_UMAMI_WEBSITE_ID) {
     return null;
   }
 
diff --git a/app/robots.ts b/app/robots.ts
index 4834d00c..8ece4e26 100644
--- a/app/robots.ts
+++ b/app/robots.ts
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ const robots = (): MetadataRoute.Robots => ({
   rules: [
     {
       userAgent: "*",
-      // block access to staging sites
-      [process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_VERCEL_ENV === "production" ? "allow" : "disallow"]: "/",
+      disallow: ["/_stream/", "/api/", "/stats/", "/tweets/", "/404", "/500"],
     },
   ],
   sitemap: `${BASE_URL}/sitemap.xml`,
diff --git a/app/sitemap.ts b/app/sitemap.ts
index b8afa523..55c145f8 100644
--- a/app/sitemap.ts
+++ b/app/sitemap.ts
@@ -15,9 +15,6 @@ const sitemap = async (): Promise<MetadataRoute.Sitemap> => {
       priority: 1.0,
       lastModified: new Date(process.env.RELEASE_DATE || Date.now()), // timestamp frozen when a new build is deployed
     },
-    { url: `${BASE_URL}/stats` },
-    { url: `${BASE_URL}/tweets` },
-    { url: `${BASE_URL}/y2k` },
   ];
 
   // add each directory in the app folder as a route (excluding special routes)
diff --git a/middleware.ts b/middleware.ts
index 2ed8907a..838a1c0a 100644
--- a/middleware.ts
+++ b/middleware.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { NextResponse } from "next/server";
-import type { NextRequest } from "next/server";
+import type { NextRequest, MiddlewareConfig } from "next/server";
 
 // assign "short codes" to approved reverse proxy destinations. for example:
 //   ["abc", "https://jakejarvis.github.io"] => /_stream/abc/123.html -> https://jakejarvis.github.io/123.html
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ export const middleware = (request: NextRequest) => {
   });
 };
 
-export const config = {
+export const config: MiddlewareConfig = {
   // save compute time by skipping middleware for static and metadata files
   matcher: [
     "/((?!_next/static|_next/image|_vercel|api|static|\\.well-known|favicon.ico|icon.png|apple-icon.png|sitemap.xml|robots.txt|manifest.webmanifest|feed.xml|feed.atom).*)",