diff --git a/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/offsite.py b/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/offsite.py
index f8acbf8d8..95702d777 100644
--- a/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/offsite.py
+++ b/scrapy/contrib/spidermiddleware/offsite.py
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ from scrapy import log
 
 class OffsiteMiddleware(object):
 
+    def __init__(self, stats):
+        self.stats = stats
+
     @classmethod
     def from_crawler(cls, crawler):
-        o = cls()
+        o = cls(crawler.stats)
         crawler.signals.connect(o.spider_opened, signal=signals.spider_opened)
         return o
 
@@ -30,6 +33,8 @@ class OffsiteMiddleware(object):
                         self.domains_seen.add(domain)
                         log.msg(format="Filtered offsite request to %(domain)r: %(request)s",
                                 level=log.DEBUG, spider=spider, domain=domain, request=x)
+                        self.stats.inc_value('offsite/domains', spider=spider)
+                    self.stats.inc_value('offsite/filtered', spider=spider)
             else:
                 yield x
 
diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py b/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py
index fd6e43753..8477e4dee 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_spidermiddleware_offsite.py
@@ -3,13 +3,15 @@ from unittest import TestCase
 from scrapy.http import Response, Request
 from scrapy.spider import Spider
 from scrapy.contrib.spidermiddleware.offsite import OffsiteMiddleware
+from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler
 
 
 class TestOffsiteMiddleware(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
         self.spider = self._get_spider()
-        self.mw = OffsiteMiddleware()
+        crawler = get_crawler()
+        self.mw = OffsiteMiddleware.from_crawler(crawler)
         self.mw.spider_opened(self.spider)
 
     def _get_spider(self):