diff --git a/swh/web/misc/urls.py b/swh/web/misc/urls.py
index 4f95fef8..58336cd2 100644
--- a/swh/web/misc/urls.py
+++ b/swh/web/misc/urls.py
@@ -1,135 +1,102 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2019  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
 
 import json
 
 import requests
 import sentry_sdk
 
 from django.conf.urls import include, url
 from django.contrib.staticfiles import finders
 from django.http import JsonResponse
 from django.shortcuts import render
 
 from swh.web.common import archive
-from swh.web.common.utils import parse_iso8601_date_to_utc
 from swh.web.config import get_config
 from swh.web.misc.metrics import prometheus_metrics
 
 
 def _jslicenses(request):
     jslicenses_file = finders.find("jssources/jslicenses.json")
     jslicenses_data = json.load(open(jslicenses_file))
     jslicenses_data = sorted(
         jslicenses_data.items(), key=lambda item: item[0].split("/")[-1]
     )
     return render(request, "misc/jslicenses.html", {"jslicenses_data": jslicenses_data})
 
 
-# historical data for backfilling missing counter values
-# https://forge.softwareheritage.org/T2619
-_stat_counters_backfill = {
-    "2015-09-01": {"revision": 0, "origin": 0, "content": 0},
-    "2016-07-01": {"revision": 594305600, "origin": 22777052},
-    "2016-09-14": {"revision": 644628800, "origin": 25258776},
-    "2016-11-24": {"revision": 704845952, "origin": 53488904},
-    "2017-05-10": {"revision": 780882048, "origin": 58257484},
-    "2017-09-26": {"revision": 853277241, "origin": 65546644},
-    "2018-01-24": {"revision": 943061517, "origin": 71814787},
-    "2018-02-13": {"revision": 946216028, "origin": 81655813},
-    "2018-03-25": {"revision": 980390191, "origin": 83797945},
-    "2018-10-04": {"revision": 1126348335, "origin": 85202432},
-    "2019-01-27": {"revision": 1248389319, "origin": 88288721},
-    "2019-04-08": {"revision": 1293870115, "origin": 88297714},
-    "2019-06-27": {"revision": 1326776432, "origin": 89301694},
-    "2019-07-24": {"revision": 1358421267, "origin": 89601149},
-    "2019-09-22": {"revision": 1379380527, "origin": 90231104},
-    "2019-09-29": {"revision": 1385477933, "origin": 90487661},
-    "2020-01-01": {"revision": 1414420369, "origin": 91400586},
-    "2020-02-06": {"revision": 1428955761, "origin": 91512130},
-    "2020-04-07": {"revision": 1590436149, "origin": 107875943},
-    "2020-05-17": {"revision": 1717420203, "origin": 121172621},
-    "2020-05-27": {"revision": 1744034936, "origin": 123781438},
-}
-
-
 def _stat_counters(request):
     stat_counters = archive.stat_counters()
     url = get_config()["history_counters_url"]
     stat_counters_history = {}
     try:
         response = requests.get(url, timeout=5)
         stat_counters_history = json.loads(response.text)
-        for d, object_counts in _stat_counters_backfill.items():
-            # convert date to javascript timestamp (in ms)
-            timestamp = int(parse_iso8601_date_to_utc(d).timestamp()) * 1000
-            for object_type, object_count in object_counts.items():
-                stat_counters_history[object_type].append([timestamp, object_count])
     except Exception as exc:
         sentry_sdk.capture_exception(exc)
 
     counters = {
         "stat_counters": stat_counters,
         "stat_counters_history": stat_counters_history,
     }
     return JsonResponse(counters)
 
 
 urlpatterns = [
     url(r"^", include("swh.web.misc.coverage")),
     url(r"^jslicenses/$", _jslicenses, name="jslicenses"),
     url(r"^", include("swh.web.misc.origin_save")),
     url(r"^stat_counters/", _stat_counters, name="stat-counters"),
     url(r"^", include("swh.web.misc.badges")),
     url(r"^metrics/prometheus/$", prometheus_metrics, name="metrics-prometheus"),
 ]
 
 
 # when running end to end tests trough cypress, declare some extra
 # endpoints to provide input data for some of those tests
 if get_config()["e2e_tests_mode"]:
     from swh.web.tests.views import (
         get_content_code_data_all_exts,
         get_content_code_data_all_filenames,
         get_content_code_data_by_ext,
         get_content_code_data_by_filename,
         get_content_other_data_by_ext,
     )
 
     urlpatterns.append(
         url(
             r"^tests/data/content/code/extension/(?P<ext>.+)/$",
             get_content_code_data_by_ext,
             name="tests-content-code-extension",
         )
     )
     urlpatterns.append(
         url(
             r"^tests/data/content/other/extension/(?P<ext>.+)/$",
             get_content_other_data_by_ext,
             name="tests-content-other-extension",
         )
     )
     urlpatterns.append(
         url(
             r"^tests/data/content/code/extensions/$",
             get_content_code_data_all_exts,
             name="tests-content-code-extensions",
         )
     )
     urlpatterns.append(
         url(
             r"^tests/data/content/code/filename/(?P<filename>.+)/$",
             get_content_code_data_by_filename,
             name="tests-content-code-filename",
         )
     )
     urlpatterns.append(
         url(
             r"^tests/data/content/code/filenames/$",
             get_content_code_data_all_filenames,
             name="tests-content-code-filenames",
         )
     )