Archiving Smart Lists to Improve Marketo Health?

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

In an effort to clean up our lead database, I am cleaning out old smart lists. I am new to this particular instance, so I don't want to delete lists that may be referenced by other team members. I am however archiving old smart lists that aren't being used by anything in Marketing Activities and that were created/updated over a year ago.

My question: Will archiving smart lists give me the same database improvement (overall speed of system increase) as deleting smart lists?

Thanks in advance.

[Josh_Hill13]

A smart list only runs when you click Leads or when you call it from a Campaign/Report.

So you can archive it with no impact to the system.

[Kevin_McMahon1]

Archiving the lists will prevent them from appearing in search results, but to Josh's point, as far as overall system performance goes you won't see a boost.

Archiving old programs and deactivating unused trigger campaigns will however help with performance. For some other tips I find this a helpful read:

Design Tips for Avoiding Marketo Performance Problems | Digital Pi

Design Tips for Avoiding Marketo Performance Problems – Part II | Digital Pi