Delete a goal

Updated

Remove goals you no longer track to keep reporting focused.

Streamline your reporting by removing goals you no longer need — this keeps analysis clear, relevant, and easier to act on.

Important

Deleted goals are permanently removed from your site and cannot be restored.

How to delete a goal from the Goals page

Goals on the Goals page are shared between Analyze and Optimize. Goals added to an unarchived optimization can’t be deleted. To delete such a goal, you can archive all optimizations the goal is added to or remove the goal from those optimizations.

To delete a goal from the Goals page:

  1. Go to Insights tab > Goals
  2. Click the Options icon to the right of the goal
  3. Click Delete > Delete

Removing a goal from an optimization

Before you begin

 •   An optimization must always have at least one goal. 
 •   Account goals (e.g., HubSpot forms) can’t be deleted from individual optimizations.
 •   The goal currently set as the target goal and the AutoGoal can’t be deleted.

How to remove a Goals page goal from an optimization

This is how to remove a reusable goal you’ve added to an optimization.

While editing an optimization:

  1. Click the Optimizations dropdown > Goals & settings
  2. Hover over a goal and click the Options icon
  3. Click Remove goal

How to delete an optimization goal

This is how to delete a goal you created within an optimization.

While editing an optimization:

  1. Click the Optimizations dropdown > Goals & settings
  2. Hover over a goal and click the Options icon
  3. Click Delete > Delete