diff --git a/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/httperror.py b/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/httperror.py
index e34c265c1..def697c2b 100644
--- a/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/httperror.py
+++ b/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/httperror.py
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ class HttpErrorMiddleware(object):
 
     def process_spider_exception(self, response, exception, spider):
         if isinstance(exception, HttpError):
+            spider.crawler.stats.inc_value('httperror/response_ignored_count')
+            spider.crawler.stats.inc_value(
+                'httperror/response_ignored_status_count/%s' % response.status
+            )
             logger.info(
                 "Ignoring response %(response)r: HTTP status code is not handled or not allowed",
                 {'response': response}, extra={'spider': spider},
diff --git a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
index 319746350..e1407e6b3 100644
--- a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
+++ b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_httperror.py
@@ -60,7 +60,8 @@ def _responses(request, status_codes):
 class TestHttpErrorMiddleware(TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
-        self.spider = Spider('foo')
+        crawler = get_crawler(Spider)
+        self.spider = Spider.from_crawler(crawler, name='foo')
         self.mw = HttpErrorMiddleware(Settings({}))
         self.req = Request('http://scrapytest.org')
         self.res200, self.res404 = _responses(self.req, [200, 404])
@@ -73,10 +74,10 @@ class TestHttpErrorMiddleware(TestCase):
 
     def test_process_spider_exception(self):
         self.assertEquals([],
-                self.mw.process_spider_exception(self.res404, \
+                self.mw.process_spider_exception(self.res404,
                         HttpError(self.res404), self.spider))
         self.assertEquals(None,
-                self.mw.process_spider_exception(self.res404, \
+                self.mw.process_spider_exception(self.res404,
                         Exception(), self.spider))
 
     def test_handle_httpstatus_list(self):
@@ -173,6 +174,12 @@ class TestHttpErrorMiddlewareIntegrational(TrialTestCase):
         self.assertEqual(crawler.spider.parsed, {'200'})
         self.assertEqual(crawler.spider.failed, {'404', '402', '500'})
 
+        get_value = crawler.stats.get_value
+        self.assertEqual(get_value('httperror/response_ignored_count'), 3)
+        self.assertEqual(get_value('httperror/response_ignored_status_count/404'), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(get_value('httperror/response_ignored_status_count/402'), 1)
+        self.assertEqual(get_value('httperror/response_ignored_status_count/500'), 1)
+
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_logging(self):
         crawler = get_crawler(_HttpErrorSpider)