diff --git a/cli/src/main.rs b/cli/src/main.rs
index 2f8c6dd5..620f329f 100644
--- a/cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/cli/src/main.rs
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ fn run() -> error::Result<()> {
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("debug").long("debug").short("d"))
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("debug-graph").long("debug-graph").short("D"))
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("quiet").long("quiet").short("q"))
+                .arg(Arg::with_name("stat").long("stat").short("s"))
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("time").long("time").short("t"))
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("allow-cancellation").long("cancel"))
                 .arg(Arg::with_name("timeout").long("timeout").takes_value(true))
@@ -234,11 +235,16 @@ fn run() -> error::Result<()> {
         let max_path_length = paths.iter().map(|p| p.chars().count()).max().unwrap();
         let mut has_error = false;
         loader.find_all_languages(&config.parser_directories)?;
+
+        let should_track_stats = matches.is_present("stat");
+        let mut stats = parse::Stats::default();
+
         for path in paths {
             let path = Path::new(&path);
             let language =
                 select_language(&mut loader, path, &current_dir, matches.value_of("scope"))?;
-            has_error |= parse::parse_file_at_path(
+
+            let this_file_errored = parse::parse_file_at_path(
                 language,
                 path,
                 &edits,
@@ -250,7 +256,21 @@ fn run() -> error::Result<()> {
                 debug_graph,
                 allow_cancellation,
             )?;
+
+            if should_track_stats {
+                stats.total_parses += 1;
+                if !this_file_errored {
+                    stats.successful_parses += 1;
+                }
+            }
+
+            has_error |= this_file_errored;
         }
+
+        if should_track_stats {
+            println!("{}", stats)
+        }
+
         if has_error {
             return Error::err(String::new());
         }
diff --git a/cli/src/parse.rs b/cli/src/parse.rs
index 13bac0f3..499bef1f 100644
--- a/cli/src/parse.rs
+++ b/cli/src/parse.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use std::io::{self, Write};
 use std::path::Path;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicUsize, Ordering};
 use std::time::Instant;
-use std::{fs, thread, usize};
+use std::{fmt, fs, thread, usize};
 use tree_sitter::{InputEdit, Language, LogType, Parser, Point, Tree};
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -14,6 +14,22 @@ pub struct Edit {
     pub inserted_text: Vec<u8>,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Default)]
+pub struct Stats {
+    pub successful_parses: usize,
+    pub total_parses: usize,
+}
+
+impl fmt::Display for Stats {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        return writeln!(f, "Total parses: {}; successful parses: {}; failed parses: {}; success percentage: {:.2}%",
+                 self.total_parses,
+                 self.successful_parses,
+                 self.total_parses - self.successful_parses,
+                 (self.successful_parses as f64) / (self.total_parses as f64) * 100.0);
+    }
+}
+
 pub fn parse_file_at_path(
     language: Language,
     path: &Path,
diff --git a/docs/section-3-creating-parsers.md b/docs/section-3-creating-parsers.md
index 694f8dae..77999190 100644
--- a/docs/section-3-creating-parsers.md
+++ b/docs/section-3-creating-parsers.md
@@ -184,10 +184,10 @@ You can run your parser on an arbitrary file using `tree-sitter parse`. This wil
           (int_literal [1, 9] - [1, 10]))))))
 ```
 
-You can pass any number of file paths and glob patterns to `tree-sitter parse`, and it will parse all of the given files. The command will exit with a non-zero status code if any parse errors occurred. You can also prevent the syntax trees from being printed using the `--quiet` flag. This makes `tree-sitter parse` usable as a secondary testing strategy: you can check that a large number of files parse without error:
+You can pass any number of file paths and glob patterns to `tree-sitter parse`, and it will parse all of the given files. The command will exit with a non-zero status code if any parse errors occurred. You can also prevent the syntax trees from being printed using the `--quiet` flag. Additionally, the `--stat` flag prints out aggregated parse success/failure information for all processed files. This makes `tree-sitter parse` usable as a secondary testing strategy: you can check that a large number of files parse without error:
 
 ```sh
-tree-sitter parse 'examples/**/*.go' --quiet
+tree-sitter parse 'examples/**/*.go' --quiet --stat
 ```
 
 ### Command: `highlight`