Delete a site

Deleting a site removes it and every byte of data attached to it. The action is permanent and cannot be undone.

This page covers what's deleted, what survives, how to confirm, and what to do instead if you only want to pause tracking.

How to delete

Open Site settings → Danger zone.
Click the red Delete site button.
In the confirmation dialog, type DELETE exactly. Case-sensitive, no spaces.
Click Delete site in the dialog.

Only the site owner can delete a site. Members and admins cannot.

After confirmation, the site disappears from your sidebar within a second. The deletion job runs asynchronously and finishes within minutes for typical sites. Very large sites (many millions of events) take longer for the cascade to complete.

What is deleted (cascade)

Everything tied to the site row goes with it:

All raw events and pageviews.
Aggregated session data.
Goals and goal completions.
Custom events and their property schemas.
Embedded widgets (live counter, globe, country map).
GA4 imports and connection metadata.
Shared access grants. Members lose access.
Public dashboard share URL. statable.com/share/{hash} returns 404.
Tracking-code association. The data-id is invalidated.

The site's data-id and 10-character hash are not reissued. If you re-create a site for the same domain, you get a fresh data-id and need to update your <script> tag.

What survives

Deletion is scoped to one site. The following stay intact:

Your Statable account and login.
Other sites you own.
Other sites you have access to as a member.
Billing, subscription, payment methods, invoice history.
Profile (name, email, preferences, API keys).
Audit log entries that reference the deleted site (kept for compliance).

If the deleted site was your only site, your account is fine. You'll see the empty-state "Add a site" screen on next login.

Effect on the tracking script

The API stops accepting events for the deleted data-id immediately. The <script> tag on your site keeps firing requests, they just return 404. Page-load performance is unaffected (the beacon is async).

To stop the requests entirely, remove the <script> tag. Optional cleanup, not required.

Effect on shared dashboards

If you'd enabled the public dashboard, the share URL stops resolving the moment the delete is confirmed. Anyone with the link sees the Site Private notice (and on subsequent loads, a 404 once the cascade finishes).

Effect on team members

Members lose access without notice. Their other site memberships are unaffected. The owner is responsible for telling the team. Statable doesn't send a deletion notification.

Alternatives to deletion

Most "I want to delete this site" requests are actually one of these:

You want to…	Don't delete, instead…
Stop measuring temporarily	Remove the `<script>` tag from your pages. Data stops flowing, existing reports stay.
Make a public dashboard private	Toggle Public dashboard to Off.
Exclude internal traffic	Add IPs or hostnames to the blocklist.
Move data to a new owner	Contact support. Site ownership can be transferred.
Wipe a bad GA4 import	Use Remove imported data in Import from GA4. The site survives.
Pause billing	Downgrade or pause the subscription under Settings → Plan & Billing.

If none fit, deletion is the right call.

Compliance and data residency

Statable honors deletion as a hard delete. Within the standard backup retention window (currently 7 days), encrypted backup snapshots may still contain the site's events. After that window expires, no copy of the data remains.

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