diff --git a/brozzler/metrics.py b/brozzler/metrics.py
index 8f9d87a..36ece6e 100644
--- a/brozzler/metrics.py
+++ b/brozzler/metrics.py
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@ except ImportError:
 from prometheus_client import Counter, Gauge, Histogram, start_http_server
 
 # fmt: off
-brozzler_pages_crawled = Counter("brozzler_pages_crawled", "number of pages visited by brozzler", labelnames=["host"])
-brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds = Histogram("brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds", "time spent processing a page in brozzler", labelnames=["host"])
-brozzler_outlinks_found = Counter("brozzler_outlinks_found", "number of outlinks found by brozzler", labelnames=["host"])
+brozzler_pages_crawled = Counter("brozzler_pages_crawled", "number of pages visited by brozzler")
+brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds = Histogram("brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds", "time spent processing a page in brozzler")
+brozzler_outlinks_found = Counter("brozzler_outlinks_found", "number of outlinks found by brozzler")
 brozzler_last_page_crawled_time = Gauge("brozzler_last_page_crawled_time", "time of last page visit")
 brozzler_in_progress_pages = Gauge("brozzler_in_progress_pages", "number of pages currently processing with brozzler")
 brozzler_resources_requested = Counter("brozzler_resources_requested", "number of resources requested", labelnames=["resource_type"])
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ brozzler_resources_fetched = Counter("brozzler_resources_fetched", "number of re
 brozzler_resources_size_total = Counter("brozzler_resources_size_total", "total size of resources fetched", labelnames=["resource_type"])
 brozzler_resources_fetch_time = Counter("brozzler_resources_fetch_time", "time spent fetching resources", labelnames=["resource_type"])
 brozzler_ydl_urls_checked = Counter("brozzler_ydl_urls_checked", "count of urls checked by brozzler yt-dlp")
-brozzler_ydl_download_attempts= Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_attempts", "count of download attempted by brozzler yt-dlp", labelnames=["host"])
-brozzler_ydl_download_successes= Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_successes", "count of downloads completed by brozzler yt-dlp", labelnames=["host"])
+brozzler_ydl_download_attempts = Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_attempts", "count of download attempted by brozzler yt-dlp", labelnames=["host"])
+brozzler_ydl_download_successes = Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_successes", "count of downloads completed by brozzler yt-dlp", labelnames=["host"])
 # fmt: on
 
 if http_sd_registry:
diff --git a/brozzler/worker.py b/brozzler/worker.py
index 6cf5836..11f0efb 100644
--- a/brozzler/worker.py
+++ b/brozzler/worker.py
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
             ):
                 try:
                     ydl_outlinks = ydl.do_youtube_dl(self, site, page)
+                    metrics.brozzler_ydl_urls_checked.inc(1)
                     outlinks.update(ydl_outlinks)
                 except brozzler.ReachedLimit as e:
                     raise
@@ -312,6 +313,7 @@ class BrozzlerWorker:
             return False
         return True
 
+    @metrics.brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds.time()
     def _browse_page(self, browser, site, page, on_screenshot=None, on_request=None):
         def update_page_metrics(page, outlinks):
             """Update page-level Prometheus metrics."""
diff --git a/brozzler/ydl.py b/brozzler/ydl.py
index b292129..2f07e9d 100644
--- a/brozzler/ydl.py
+++ b/brozzler/ydl.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import os
 import json
 import doublethink
 import datetime
+from . import metrics
 import threading
 
 thread_local = threading.local()
@@ -296,9 +297,10 @@ def _remember_videos(page, pushed_videos=None):
 
 def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
     ytdlp_url = page.redirect_url if page.redirect_url else page.url
+    ytdlp_host = ytdlp_url.split("//")[-1].split("/")[0].split('?')[0]
     try:
         logging.info("trying yt-dlp on %s", ytdlp_url)
-
+        metrics.brozzler_ydl_download_attempts.labels(ytdlp_host).inc(1)
         with brozzler.thread_accept_exceptions():
             # we do whatwg canonicalization here to avoid "<urlopen error
             # no host given>" resulting in ProxyError
@@ -307,6 +309,7 @@ def _try_youtube_dl(worker, ydl, site, page):
             ie_result = ydl.sanitize_info(
                 ydl.extract_info(str(urlcanon.whatwg(ytdlp_url)))
             )
+        metrics.brozzler_ydl_download_successes.labels(ytdlp_host).inc(1)
         _remember_videos(page, ydl.pushed_videos)
         if worker._using_warcprox(site):
             info_json = json.dumps(ie_result, sort_keys=True, indent=4)