diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart b/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
index 4311432459..d4d71d3df5 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/handlers/custom_api.dart
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ import '../../scorecard/backend.dart';
 import '../../search/backend.dart';
 import '../../search/search_client.dart';
 import '../../search/search_service.dart';
+import '../../service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import '../../service/topics/count_topics.dart';
 import '../../shared/configuration.dart';
 import '../../shared/exceptions.dart';
@@ -244,7 +245,8 @@ Future<VersionScore> packageVersionScoreHandler(
       grantedPoints: card.grantedPubPoints,
       maxPoints: card.maxPubPoints,
       likeCount: pkg.likes,
-      downloadCount30Days: card.thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
+      downloadCount30Days:
+          downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package),
       tags: tags.toList(),
       lastUpdated: updated,
     );
diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/templates/package_misc.dart b/app/lib/frontend/templates/package_misc.dart
index d8b96e8319..e63856fe1f 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/templates/package_misc.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/templates/package_misc.dart
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 import 'package:_pub_shared/search/search_form.dart';
 import 'package:_pub_shared/search/tags.dart';
+import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 
 import '../../package/models.dart';
 import '../../shared/urls.dart' as urls;
@@ -196,7 +197,8 @@ d.Node labeledScoresNodeFromPackageView(PackageView view, {String? version}) {
     pkgScorePageUrl: urls.pkgScoreUrl(view.name, version: version),
     likeCount: view.likes,
     grantedPubPoints: view.grantedPubPoints,
-    thirtyDaysDownloads: view.thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
+    thirtyDaysDownloads:
+        downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(view.name),
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/pkg/score_tab.dart b/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/pkg/score_tab.dart
index 7bfda58766..90d32d941f 100644
--- a/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/pkg/score_tab.dart
+++ b/app/lib/frontend/templates/views/pkg/score_tab.dart
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import 'dart:convert';
 import 'package:_pub_shared/data/download_counts_data.dart';
 import 'package:_pub_shared/format/number_format.dart';
 import 'package:pana/models.dart';
+import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/shared/utils.dart';
 
 import '../../../../scorecard/models.dart' hide ReportStatus;
@@ -43,7 +44,8 @@ d.Node scoreTabNode({
       children: [
         _likeKeyFigureNode(likeCount),
         _pubPointsKeyFigureNode(report, showPending),
-        _downloadCountsKeyFigureNode(card.thirtyDaysDownloadCounts),
+        _downloadCountsKeyFigureNode(
+            downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package)),
       ],
     ),
     if (showPending)
diff --git a/app/lib/package/models.dart b/app/lib/package/models.dart
index 11157e0a37..f6178686b7 100644
--- a/app/lib/package/models.dart
+++ b/app/lib/package/models.dart
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import 'package:_pub_shared/search/tags.dart';
 import 'package:clock/clock.dart';
 import 'package:json_annotation/json_annotation.dart';
 import 'package:pana/models.dart';
-import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/download_counts.dart';
 import 'package:pub_semver/pub_semver.dart';
 
@@ -937,7 +936,6 @@ class PackageView {
   final List<ProcessedScreenshot>? screenshots;
 
   final List<String>? topics;
-  final int? thirtyDaysDownloadCounts;
 
   PackageView({
     this.screenshots,
@@ -955,7 +953,6 @@ class PackageView {
     this.spdxIdentifiers,
     this.apiPages,
     this.topics,
-    required this.thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
   })  : isPending = isPending ?? false,
         tags = tags ?? <String>[];
 
@@ -968,7 +965,6 @@ class PackageView {
     PackageVersion? version,
     required ScoreCardData scoreCard,
     List<ApiPageRef>? apiPages,
-    required int? thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
   }) {
     final tags = <String>{
       ...package.getTags(),
@@ -992,7 +988,6 @@ class PackageView {
       apiPages: apiPages,
       screenshots: scoreCard.panaReport?.screenshots,
       topics: version?.pubspec?.canonicalizedTopics,
-      thirtyDaysDownloadCounts: thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
     );
   }
 
@@ -1013,7 +1008,6 @@ class PackageView {
       apiPages: apiPages ?? this.apiPages,
       screenshots: screenshots,
       topics: topics,
-      thirtyDaysDownloadCounts: thirtyDaysDownloadCounts,
     );
   }
 
@@ -1172,8 +1166,6 @@ class PackagePageData {
       releases: latestReleases,
       version: version,
       scoreCard: scoreCard,
-      thirtyDaysDownloadCounts:
-          downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package.name!),
     );
   }
 }
diff --git a/app/lib/package/models.g.dart b/app/lib/package/models.g.dart
index a7bd2807a7..fd84df077f 100644
--- a/app/lib/package/models.g.dart
+++ b/app/lib/package/models.g.dart
@@ -111,8 +111,6 @@ PackageView _$PackageViewFromJson(Map<String, dynamic> json) => PackageView(
           .toList(),
       topics:
           (json['topics'] as List<dynamic>?)?.map((e) => e as String).toList(),
-      thirtyDaysDownloadCounts:
-          (json['thirtyDaysDownloadCounts'] as num?)?.toInt(),
     );
 
 Map<String, dynamic> _$PackageViewToJson(PackageView instance) =>
@@ -134,6 +132,4 @@ Map<String, dynamic> _$PackageViewToJson(PackageView instance) =>
       if (instance.apiPages case final value?) 'apiPages': value,
       if (instance.screenshots case final value?) 'screenshots': value,
       if (instance.topics case final value?) 'topics': value,
-      if (instance.thirtyDaysDownloadCounts case final value?)
-        'thirtyDaysDownloadCounts': value,
     };
diff --git a/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart b/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
index 540ce8fd08..55fb459ed2 100644
--- a/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
+++ b/app/lib/scorecard/backend.dart
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ import 'package:gcloud/service_scope.dart' as ss;
 import 'package:logging/logging.dart';
 import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
 import 'package:pool/pool.dart';
-import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/computations.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/shared/exceptions.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/task/backend.dart';
@@ -97,8 +96,6 @@ class ScoreCardBackend {
         releases: releases,
         version: pv,
         scoreCard: card,
-        thirtyDaysDownloadCounts:
-            downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(package),
       );
     });
   }
diff --git a/app/lib/scorecard/models.dart b/app/lib/scorecard/models.dart
index a80e7dde2e..fadaa51a21 100644
--- a/app/lib/scorecard/models.dart
+++ b/app/lib/scorecard/models.dart
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import 'package:_pub_shared/data/download_counts_data.dart';
 import 'package:_pub_shared/search/tags.dart';
 import 'package:json_annotation/json_annotation.dart';
 import 'package:pana/models.dart';
-import 'package:pub_dev/service/download_counts/backend.dart';
 import 'package:pub_dev/task/models.dart';
 
 import '../scorecard/backend.dart';
@@ -70,10 +69,6 @@ class ScoreCardData {
   late final report = panaReport?.report;
 
   List<String>? get tags => panaReport?.derivedTags;
-
-  // TODO: refactor code to use downloadCountsBackend directly.
-  int? get thirtyDaysDownloadCounts =>
-      downloadCountsBackend.lookup30DaysTotalCounts(packageName!);
 }
 
 @JsonSerializable(includeIfNull: false)