diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 377368de9c1e..8d3cc52a5fa0 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,12 +5,6 @@ matrix:
     - node_js: "8"
     - node_js: "9"
 dist: trusty
-env:
-  global:
-    - ARTIFACTS_AWS_REGION=us-west-2
-    - ARTIFACTS_S3_BUCKET=lighthouse-screenshots-debugging
-    - secure: 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
-    - secure: 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
 cache:
   yarn: true
   directories:
@@ -27,7 +21,6 @@ install:
   # travis can't handle the parallel install (without caches)
   - yarn run install-all:task:windows
 before_script:
-  - gem install travis-artifacts
   - export DISPLAY=:99.0
   - export CHROME_PATH="$(pwd)/chrome-linux/chrome"
   - sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start
@@ -49,7 +42,5 @@ before_cache:
   - rm -rf ./node_modules/temp-devtoolsprotocol/
 after_success:
   - yarn coveralls
-after_failure:
-  - grep 'No screenshots' perf.json && travis-artifacts upload --path perf-0.trace.json
 addons:
   chrome: stable
diff --git a/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/perf/run-tests.sh b/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/perf/run-tests.sh
index 4e14104f6df2..c81751a9377f 100644
--- a/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/perf/run-tests.sh
+++ b/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/perf/run-tests.sh
@@ -6,14 +6,8 @@ sleep 0.5s
 
 config="lighthouse-core/config/perf.json"
 expectations="lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/perf/expectations.js"
-save_assets=""
 
-if [[ "$CI" = true ]]; then
-  # save assets so that failures may be examined later
-  save_assets="--save-assets-path=perf.json"
-fi
-
-yarn smokehouse -- --config-path=$config --expectations-path=$expectations "$save_assets"
+yarn smokehouse -- --config-path=$config --expectations-path=$expectations
 exit_code=$?
 
 # kill test servers
diff --git a/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/smokehouse.js b/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/smokehouse.js
index ac45c0a6c129..1eae88124b7d 100755
--- a/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/smokehouse.js
+++ b/lighthouse-cli/test/smokehouse/smokehouse.js
@@ -43,10 +43,9 @@ function resolveLocalOrCwd(payloadPath) {
  * Launch Chrome and do a full Lighthouse run.
  * @param {string} url
  * @param {string} configPath
- * @param {string=} saveAssetsPath
  * @return {!LighthouseResults}
  */
-function runLighthouse(url, configPath, saveAssetsPath) {
+function runLighthouse(url, configPath) {
   const command = 'node';
   const args = [
     'lighthouse-cli/index.js',
@@ -57,11 +56,6 @@ function runLighthouse(url, configPath, saveAssetsPath) {
     '--port=0',
   ];
 
-  if (saveAssetsPath) {
-    args.push('--save-assets');
-    args.push(`--output-path=${saveAssetsPath}`);
-  }
-
   // Lighthouse sometimes times out waiting to for a connection to Chrome in CI.
   // Watch for this error and retry relaunching Chrome and running Lighthouse up
   // to RETRIES times. See https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/issues/833
@@ -86,11 +80,6 @@ function runLighthouse(url, configPath, saveAssetsPath) {
     process.exit(runResults.status);
   }
 
-  if (saveAssetsPath) {
-    // If assets were saved, the JSON output was written to the specified path instead of stdout
-    return require(resolveLocalOrCwd(saveAssetsPath));
-  }
-
   return JSON.parse(runResults.stdout);
 }
 
@@ -275,7 +264,6 @@ const cli = yargs
   .describe({
     'config-path': 'The path to the config JSON file',
     'expectations-path': 'The path to the expected audit results file',
-    'save-assets-path': 'Saves assets to the named path if set',
   })
   .default('config-path', DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH)
   .default('expectations-path', DEFAULT_EXPECTATIONS_PATH)
@@ -290,7 +278,7 @@ let passingCount = 0;
 let failingCount = 0;
 expectations.forEach(expected => {
   console.log(`Checking '${expected.initialUrl}'...`);
-  const results = runLighthouse(expected.initialUrl, configPath, cli['save-assets-path']);
+  const results = runLighthouse(expected.initialUrl, configPath);
   const collated = collateResults(results, expected);
   const counts = report(collated);
   passingCount += counts.passed;