diff --git a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
index 7b0eff9a7..b4592453e 100644
--- a/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
+++ b/scrapy/conf/default_settings.py
@@ -191,10 +191,6 @@ STATS_DEBUG = False
 STATS_SDB_DOMAIN = 'scrapy_stats'
 STATS_SDB_ASYNC = False
 
-# deprecated settings - the stats web service should be moved to the web console
-STATS_WSPORT = 8089
-STATS_WSTIMEOUT = 15
-
 STATSMAILER_RCPTS = []
 
 TEMPLATES_DIR = abspath(join(dirname(__file__), '..', 'templates'))