diff --git a/src/replaycrawler.ts b/src/replaycrawler.ts
index 519c9a64..c2cc0ee9 100644
--- a/src/replaycrawler.ts
+++ b/src/replaycrawler.ts
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ export class ReplayCrawler extends Crawler {
     }
 
     for (const s of this.excludeRx) {
-      if (!s.test(url)) {
+      if (s.test(url)) {
         logger.info("Skipping excluded page", { url }, "replay");
         return;
       }
diff --git a/tests/qa_compare.test.js b/tests/qa_compare.test.js
index fd0d4ed6..039f5f9a 100644
--- a/tests/qa_compare.test.js
+++ b/tests/qa_compare.test.js
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ test("run initial crawl with text and screenshots to prepare for QA", async () =
   fs.rmSync("./test-crawls/qa-wr-net", { recursive: true, force: true });
 
   child_process.execSync(
-    "docker run -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://webrecorder.net/ --url https://webrecorder.net/about --url https://browsertrix.com/ --scopeType page --collection qa-wr-net --text to-warc --screenshot view --generateWACZ",
+    "docker run -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler crawl --url https://webrecorder.net/ --url https://webrecorder.net/about --url https://browsertrix.com/ --url https://webrecorder.net/contact --scopeType page --collection qa-wr-net --text to-warc --screenshot view --generateWACZ",
   );
 
   expect(
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ test("run QA comparison, with write pages to redis", async () => {
   fs.rmSync("./test-crawls/qa-wr-net-replay", { recursive: true, force: true });
 
   const child = child_process.exec(
-    "docker run -p 36380:6379 -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler qa --qaSource /crawls/collections/qa-wr-net/qa-wr-net.wacz --collection qa-wr-net-replay --crawlId test --qaDebugImageDiff --writePagesToRedis --debugAccessRedis",
+    "docker run -p 36380:6379 -v $PWD/test-crawls:/crawls webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler qa --qaSource /crawls/collections/qa-wr-net/qa-wr-net.wacz --collection qa-wr-net-replay --crawlId test --qaDebugImageDiff --writePagesToRedis --debugAccessRedis --exclude contact",
   );
 
   // detect crawler exit
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ test("run QA comparison, with write pages to redis", async () => {
     expect(json).toHaveProperty("loadState");
     expect(json).toHaveProperty("comparison");
 
+    expect(json.title.indexOf("contact") < 0).toBe(true);
+
     expect(json.comparison).toHaveProperty("screenshotMatch");
     expect(json.comparison).toHaveProperty("textMatch");
     expect(json.comparison).toHaveProperty("resourceCounts");