diff --git a/src/crawler.ts b/src/crawler.ts
index 6a0f3f71..eda53510 100644
--- a/src/crawler.ts
+++ b/src/crawler.ts
@@ -2076,12 +2076,11 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
       return;
     }
 
-    const realSize = await this.crawlState.queueSize();
     const pendingPages = await this.crawlState.getPendingList();
     const pending = pendingPages.length;
     const crawled = await this.crawlState.numDone();
     const failed = await this.crawlState.numFailed();
-    const total = realSize + pendingPages.length + crawled + failed;
+    const total = await this.crawlState.numFound();
     const limit = { max: this.pageLimit || 0, hit: this.limitHit };
     const stats = {
       crawled,
@@ -2219,6 +2218,7 @@ self.__bx_behaviors.selectMainBehavior();
             // excluded in recorder
             data.pageSkipped = true;
             logger.warn("Page Load Blocked, skipping", { msg, loadState });
+            throw new Error("logged");
           } else {
             return this.pageFailed("Page Load Failed", retry, {
               msg,
diff --git a/src/util/recorder.ts b/src/util/recorder.ts
index ccd2c17d..c28cbbcb 100644
--- a/src/util/recorder.ts
+++ b/src/util/recorder.ts
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ export class Recorder extends EventEmitter {
   pageInfo!: PageInfoRecord;
   mainFrameId: string | null = null;
   skipRangeUrls!: Map<string, number>;
+  skipPageInfo = false;
 
   swTargetId?: string | null;
   swFrameIds = new Set<string>();
@@ -743,6 +744,7 @@ export class Recorder extends EventEmitter {
       );
 
       if (errorReason) {
+        this.skipPageInfo = true;
         await cdp.send("Fetch.failRequest", {
           requestId,
           errorReason,
@@ -946,6 +948,7 @@ export class Recorder extends EventEmitter {
     this.pendingRequests = new Map();
     this.skipIds = new Set();
     this.skipRangeUrls = new Map<string, number>();
+    this.skipPageInfo = false;
     this.pageFinished = false;
     this.pageInfo = {
       pageid,
@@ -974,6 +977,14 @@ export class Recorder extends EventEmitter {
   }
 
   writePageInfoRecord() {
+    if (this.skipPageInfo) {
+      logger.debug(
+        "Skipping writing pageinfo for blocked page",
+        { url: "urn:pageinfo:" + this.pageUrl },
+        "recorder",
+      );
+      return;
+    }
     const text = JSON.stringify(this.pageInfo, null, 2);
 
     const url = this.pageUrl;
diff --git a/src/util/state.ts b/src/util/state.ts
index bb973b11..54c7cc5a 100644
--- a/src/util/state.ts
+++ b/src/util/state.ts
@@ -115,11 +115,18 @@ export class PageState {
 // ============================================================================
 declare module "ioredis" {
   interface RedisCommander<Context> {
+    numfound(
+      skey: string,
+      esKey: string,
+      exKey: string,
+    ): Result<number, Context>;
+
     addqueue(
       pkey: string,
       qkey: string,
       skey: string,
       esKey: string,
+      exKey: string,
       url: string,
       score: number,
       data: string,
@@ -188,6 +195,7 @@ export type SaveState = {
   errors: string[];
   extraSeeds: string[];
   sitemapDone: boolean;
+  excluded?: string[];
 };
 
 // ============================================================================
@@ -213,6 +221,8 @@ export class RedisCrawlState {
   esKey: string;
   esMap: string;
 
+  exKey: string;
+
   sitemapDoneKey: string;
 
   waczFilename: string | null = null;
@@ -252,16 +262,27 @@ export class RedisCrawlState {
     this.esKey = this.key + ":extraSeeds";
     this.esMap = this.key + ":esMap";
 
+    // stores URLs that have been seen but excluded
+    // (eg. redirect-to-excluded or trimmed)
+    this.exKey = this.key + ":excluded";
+
     this.sitemapDoneKey = this.key + ":sitemapDone";
 
     this._initLuaCommands(this.redis);
   }
 
   _initLuaCommands(redis: Redis) {
+    redis.defineCommand("numfound", {
+      numberOfKeys: 3,
+      lua: `
+return redis.call('scard', KEYS[1]) - redis.call('llen', KEYS[2]) - redis.call('scard', KEYS[3]);
+`,
+    });
+
     redis.defineCommand("addqueue", {
-      numberOfKeys: 4,
+      numberOfKeys: 5,
       lua: `
-local size = redis.call('scard', KEYS[3]) - redis.call('llen', KEYS[4]);
+local size = redis.call('scard', KEYS[3]) - redis.call('llen', KEYS[4]) - redis.call('scard', KEYS[5]);
 local limit = tonumber(ARGV[4]);
 if limit > 0 and size >= limit then
   return 1;
@@ -288,7 +309,7 @@ return 0;
       if json then
         local data = cjson.decode(json);
         redis.call('hdel', KEYS[2], data.url);
-        redis.call('srem', KEYS[3], data.url);
+        redis.call('sadd', KEYS[3], data.url);
       end
       return 1;
       `,
@@ -449,7 +470,7 @@ return inx;
   async markExcluded(url: string) {
     await this.redis.hdel(this.pkey, url);
 
-    await this.redis.srem(this.skey, url);
+    await this.redis.sadd(this.exKey, url);
   }
 
   recheckScope(data: QueueEntry, seeds: ScopedSeed[]) {
@@ -471,6 +492,10 @@ return inx;
     );
   }
 
+  async numFound() {
+    return await this.redis.numfound(this.skey, this.esKey, this.exKey);
+  }
+
   async trimToLimit(limit: number) {
     if (limit === 0) {
       return;
@@ -486,7 +511,7 @@ return inx;
     const remain = Math.max(0, limit - totalComplete);
     // trim queue until size <= remain
     while (
-      (await this.redis.trimqueue(this.qkey, this.pkey, this.skey, remain)) ===
+      (await this.redis.trimqueue(this.qkey, this.pkey, this.exKey, remain)) ===
       1
     ) {
       /* ignore */
@@ -706,6 +731,7 @@ return inx;
       this.qkey,
       this.skey,
       this.esKey,
+      this.exKey,
       url,
       this._getScore(data),
       JSON.stringify(data),
@@ -748,8 +774,10 @@ return inx;
     const errors = await this.getErrorList();
     const extraSeeds = await this._iterListKeys(this.esKey, seen);
     const sitemapDone = await this.isSitemapDone();
+    const excludedSet = await this._iterSet(this.exKey);
 
     const finished = [...seen.values()];
+    const excluded = [...excludedSet.values()];
 
     return {
       extraSeeds,
@@ -759,6 +787,7 @@ return inx;
       sitemapDone,
       failed,
       errors,
+      excluded,
     };
   }
 
@@ -845,6 +874,7 @@ return inx;
     await this.redis.del(this.fkey);
     await this.redis.del(this.skey);
     await this.redis.del(this.ekey);
+    await this.redis.del(this.exKey);
 
     let seen: string[] = [];
 
@@ -940,6 +970,11 @@ return inx;
     }
 
     await this.redis.sadd(this.skey, seen);
+
+    if (state.excluded?.length) {
+      await this.redis.sadd(this.exKey, state.excluded);
+    }
+
     return seen.length;
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/exclude-redirected.test.js b/tests/exclude-redirected.test.js
index b81a0ef8..0802d6c6 100644
--- a/tests/exclude-redirected.test.js
+++ b/tests/exclude-redirected.test.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { execSync } from "child_process";
 
 test("ensure exclusion is applied on redirected URL, which contains 'help', so it is not crawled", () => {
   execSync(
-      "docker run -p 9037:9037 -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://example-com.webrecorder.net/ --exclude help --collection redir-exclude-test --extraHops 1");
+      "docker run --rm -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://example-com.webrecorder.net/ --exclude help --collection redir-exclude-test --extraHops 1");
 
   // no entries besides header
   expect(
@@ -19,3 +19,28 @@ test("ensure exclusion is applied on redirected URL, which contains 'help', so i
   
 });
 
+
+test("ensure exclusion applied on redirect URL, and URL is not requeued again", () => {
+  execSync(
+    "docker run --rm -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://example-com.webrecorder.net/ --exclude help --collection redir-exclude-test-2 --extraHops 1 --url https://www.iana.org/domains/example --url https://example-com.webrecorder.net/page-2 --generateCDX");
+
+
+  // no entries besides header
+  expect(
+    fs
+      .readFileSync(
+        "test-crawls/collections/redir-exclude-test-2/pages/extraPages.jsonl",
+        "utf8",
+      ).trim().split("\n").length
+  ).toBe(1);
+
+
+  const data = fs.readFileSync(
+    "test-crawls/collections/redir-exclude-test-2/indexes/index.cdxj",
+    { encoding: "utf-8" },
+  );
+
+  // expect no urn:pageinfo records for excluded page
+  const first = data.indexOf(`"urn:pageinfo:https://www.iana.org/domains/example"`);
+  expect(first < 0).toBe(true);
+});