diff --git a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/reporting/HostsReport.java b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/reporting/HostsReport.java
index 8206e3f3..6a3175dd 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/reporting/HostsReport.java
+++ b/engine/src/main/java/org/archive/crawler/reporting/HostsReport.java
@@ -47,15 +47,34 @@ public class HostsReport extends Report {
      * A value of zero means never sort. Default -1, always sort. This matches the behavior before this 
      * parameter was introduced.
      * 
-     * This value can not be overridden by a sheet.
+     * This value can not be overridden by a sheet. It may be safely edited at runtime.
      * 
      * @param maxSortSize
      */
     public void setMaxSortSize(int maxSortSize) {
     	this.maxSortSize = maxSortSize;
     }
-
-    @Override
+    
+    boolean suppressEmptyHosts = false;
+    public boolean isSuppressEmptyHosts() {
+		return suppressEmptyHosts;
+	}
+    /**
+     * If true, hosts for whom no URLs have been fetched will be suppressed in this report.
+     * Such hosts are recorded when the crawler encounters an URL for a host but has not yet (and may never) 
+     * processed any URL for the host. This can happen for many reason's, related to scoping and queue budgeting
+     * among others.
+     * Default behavior is to include these non-crawled hosts.
+     * 
+     * This value can no t be overridden by a sheet. It may be safely edited at runtime.
+     *  
+     * @param suppressEmptyHosts 
+     */
+	public void setSuppressEmptyHosts(boolean suppressEmptyHosts) {
+		this.suppressEmptyHosts = suppressEmptyHosts;
+	}
+	
+	@Override
     public void write(final PrintWriter writer, StatisticsTracker stats) {
     	Collection<String> keys = null;
     	DisposableStoredSortedMap<Long, String> hd = null;
@@ -70,18 +89,21 @@ public class HostsReport extends Report {
             // key is -count, value is hostname
             try {
                 CrawlHost host = stats.serverCache.getHostFor(key);
-                writeReportLine(writer,
-                        host.getSubstats().getFetchSuccesses(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getTotalBytes(),
-                        host.fixUpName(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getRobotsDenials(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getRemaining(), 
-                        host.getSubstats().getNovelUrls(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getNovelBytes(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getDupByHashUrls(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getDupByHashBytes(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getNotModifiedUrls(),
-                        host.getSubstats().getNotModifiedBytes());
+                long fetchSuccesses = host.getSubstats().getFetchSuccesses();
+                if (!suppressEmptyHosts || fetchSuccesses>0) {
+	                writeReportLine(writer,
+	                        fetchSuccesses,
+	                        host.getSubstats().getTotalBytes(),
+	                        host.fixUpName(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getRobotsDenials(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getRemaining(), 
+	                        host.getSubstats().getNovelUrls(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getNovelBytes(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getDupByHashUrls(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getDupByHashBytes(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getNotModifiedUrls(),
+	                        host.getSubstats().getNotModifiedBytes());
+                }
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 logger.log(Level.WARNING, "unable to tally host stats for " + key, e);
             }
diff --git a/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml b/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
index f3e246ce..589646e4 100644
--- a/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
+++ b/engine/src/main/resources/org/archive/crawler/restlet/profile-crawler-beans.cxml
@@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ http://example.example/example
          <bean id="seedsReport" class="org.archive.crawler.reporting.SeedsReport" />
          <bean id="hostsReport" class="org.archive.crawler.reporting.HostsReport">
      		<property name="maxSortSize" value="-1" />
+     		<property name="suppressEmptyHosts" value="false" />
          </bean>
          <bean id="sourceTagsReport" class="org.archive.crawler.reporting.SourceTagsReport" />
          <bean id="mimetypesReport" class="org.archive.crawler.reporting.MimetypesReport" />