Optimizing Links for QR Codes

QR Codes are a well-supported enough way to transfer someone onto a website on their phone.But how do you make QR codes that don’t require a large surface area to scan correctly? (The answer probably won’t surprise too much)Once I saw a QR code that looked something like this:I saw this in a magazine, printed at a size of about 1 or 1.5 cm side-by-side. This naturally did not scan.But of course, if you look at the actual URL it leads to you might notice a couple of problems very immediately:https://www.this-is-a-long-site-name.example/index.php?page=sections/about-6/getting-started-67/lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-621&utm_source=big-weekly-newspaper-magazine-week-4-july-twenty-twenty-six&utm_medium=qrcode&utm_campaign=big-weekly-newspaper-magazine-placementcopious amount of tracking parametersExtraneous parts from whatever is doing the request routing (integer IDs in slugs, index.php?page= routing, etc)www. prefixthe chosen domain name is quite long. This could be the least actionable…