diff --git a/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/urllength.py b/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/urllength.py
index 5be1f80cb05f181421a11e16291b4b3f97c80ec8..450d4ff40eab11322416a4500637d473df440be8 100644
--- a/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/urllength.py
+++ b/scrapy/spidermiddlewares/urllength.py
@@ -27,9 +27,12 @@ class UrlLengthMiddleware:
     def process_spider_output(self, response, result, spider):
         def _filter(request):
             if isinstance(request, Request) and len(request.url) > self.maxlength:
-                logger.debug("Ignoring link (url length > %(maxlength)d): %(url)s ",
-                             {'maxlength': self.maxlength, 'url': request.url},
-                             extra={'spider': spider})
+                logger.info(
+                    "Ignoring link (url length > %(maxlength)d): %(url)s ",
+                    {'maxlength': self.maxlength, 'url': request.url},
+                    extra={'spider': spider}
+                )
+                spider.crawler.stats.inc_value('urllength/request_ignored_count', spider=spider)
                 return False
             else:
                 return True
diff --git a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
index 5ef2b23fdf1de1b131f8e98705c8c01430c7b3f1..171f4ddfdd60faf26f187bb060d952f9328661c4 100644
--- a/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
+++ b/tests/test_spidermiddleware_urllength.py
@@ -1,20 +1,41 @@
 from unittest import TestCase
 
+from testfixtures import LogCapture
+
 from scrapy.spidermiddlewares.urllength import UrlLengthMiddleware
 from scrapy.http import Response, Request
 from scrapy.spiders import Spider
+from scrapy.utils.test import get_crawler
+from scrapy.settings import Settings
 
 
 class TestUrlLengthMiddleware(TestCase):
 
-    def test_process_spider_output(self):
-        res = Response('http://scrapytest.org')
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.maxlength = 25
+        settings = Settings({'URLLENGTH_LIMIT': self.maxlength})
+
+        crawler = get_crawler(Spider)
+        self.spider = crawler._create_spider('foo')
+        self.stats = crawler.stats
+        self.mw = UrlLengthMiddleware.from_settings(settings)
+
+        self.response = Response('http://scrapytest.org')
+        self.short_url_req = Request('http://scrapytest.org/')
+        self.long_url_req = Request('http://scrapytest.org/this_is_a_long_url')
+        self.reqs = [self.short_url_req, self.long_url_req]
+
+    def process_spider_output(self):
+        return list(self.mw.process_spider_output(self.response, self.reqs, self.spider))
+
+    def test_middleware_works(self):
+        self.assertEqual(self.process_spider_output(), [self.short_url_req])
+
+    def test_logging(self):
+        with LogCapture() as log:
+            self.process_spider_output()
 
-        short_url_req = Request('http://scrapytest.org/')
-        long_url_req = Request('http://scrapytest.org/this_is_a_long_url')
-        reqs = [short_url_req, long_url_req]
+        ric = self.stats.get_value('urllength/request_ignored_count', spider=self.spider)
+        self.assertEqual(ric, 1)
 
-        mw = UrlLengthMiddleware(maxlength=25)
-        spider = Spider('foo')
-        out = list(mw.process_spider_output(res, reqs, spider))
-        self.assertEqual(out, [short_url_req])
+        self.assertIn(f'Ignoring link (url length > {self.maxlength})', str(log))