diff --git a/tests/spiders.py b/tests/spiders.py
index d1998ca69..743811893 100644
--- a/tests/spiders.py
+++ b/tests/spiders.py
@@ -283,15 +283,19 @@ class ItemSpider(FollowAllSpider):
             yield {}
 
 
-class MaxItemsKeepCrawlingSpider(FollowAllSpider):
-    def __init__(self, max_items=10, *args, **kwargs):
+class MaxItemsAndRequestsSpider(FollowAllSpider):
+    def __init__(self, max_items=10, max_requests=10, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         self.max_items = max_items
-        self.items_scraped = 0
+        self.max_requests = max_requests
 
     def parse(self, response):
+        self.items_scraped = 0
+        self.pages_crawled = 1  # account for the start url
         for request in super().parse(response):
-            yield request
+            if self.pages_crawled < self.max_requests:
+                yield request
+                self.pages_crawled += 1
             if self.items_scraped < self.max_items:
                 yield Item()
                 self.items_scraped += 1
diff --git a/tests/test_closespider.py b/tests/test_closespider.py
index 50b483a74..9810d10fb 100644
--- a/tests/test_closespider.py
+++ b/tests/test_closespider.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from tests.spiders import (
     ErrorSpider,
     FollowAllSpider,
     ItemSpider,
-    MaxItemsKeepCrawlingSpider,
+    MaxItemsAndRequestsSpider,
     SlowSpider,
 )
 
@@ -44,20 +44,21 @@ class TestCloseSpider(TestCase):
     def test_closespider_pagecount_no_item(self):
         close_on = 5
         max_items = 5
+        max_requests = close_on + max_items
         crawler = get_crawler(
-            MaxItemsKeepCrawlingSpider,
+            MaxItemsAndRequestsSpider,
             {
                 "CLOSESPIDER_PAGECOUNT_NO_ITEM": close_on,
             },
         )
-        yield crawler.crawl(max_items=max_items, mockserver=self.mockserver)
+        yield crawler.crawl(
+            max_items=max_items, max_requests=max_requests, mockserver=self.mockserver
+        )
         reason = crawler.spider.meta["close_reason"]
         self.assertEqual(reason, "closespider_pagecount_no_item")
         pagecount = crawler.stats.get_value("response_received_count")
         itemcount = crawler.stats.get_value("item_scraped_count")
-        self.assertEqual(itemcount, max_items)
         self.assertLessEqual(pagecount, close_on + itemcount)
-        self.assertGreater(pagecount, itemcount)
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_closespider_errorcount(self):