diff --git a/streaming/index.js b/streaming/index.js
index 8015c6815a0..3565ed2783e 100644
--- a/streaming/index.js
+++ b/streaming/index.js
@@ -1386,19 +1386,21 @@ const startServer = async () => {
   };
 
   wss.on('connection', (ws, req) => {
-    const location = url.parse(req.url, true);
+    // Note: url.parse could throw, which would terminate the connection, so we
+    // increment the connected clients metric straight away when we establish
+    // the connection, without waiting:
+    connectedClients.labels({ type: 'websocket' }).inc();
 
+    // Setup request properties:
     req.requestId = uuid.v4();
     req.remoteAddress = ws._socket.remoteAddress;
 
+    // Setup connection keep-alive state:
     ws.isAlive = true;
-
     ws.on('pong', () => {
       ws.isAlive = true;
     });
 
-    connectedClients.labels({ type: 'websocket' }).inc();
-
     /**
      * @type {WebSocketSession}
      */
@@ -1408,27 +1410,31 @@ const startServer = async () => {
       subscriptions: {},
     };
 
-    const onEnd = () => {
+    ws.on('close', function onWebsocketClose() {
       const subscriptions = Object.keys(session.subscriptions);
 
       subscriptions.forEach(channelIds => {
         removeSubscription(session.subscriptions, channelIds.split(';'), req)
       });
 
+      // Decrement the metrics for connected clients:
+      connectedClients.labels({ type: 'websocket' }).dec();
+
       // ensure garbage collection:
       session.socket = null;
       session.request = null;
       session.subscriptions = {};
+    });
 
-      connectedClients.labels({ type: 'websocket' }).dec();
-    };
-
-    ws.on('close', onEnd);
-    ws.on('error', onEnd);
+    // Note: immediately after the `error` event is emitted, the `close` event
+    // is emitted. As such, all we need to do is log the error here.
+    ws.on('error', (err) => {
+      log.error('websocket', err.toString());
+    });
 
     ws.on('message', (data, isBinary) => {
       if (isBinary) {
-        log.warn('socket', 'Received binary data, closing connection');
+        log.warn('websocket', 'Received binary data, closing connection');
         ws.close(1003, 'The mastodon streaming server does not support binary messages');
         return;
       }
@@ -1451,7 +1457,10 @@ const startServer = async () => {
 
     subscribeWebsocketToSystemChannel(session);
 
-    if (location.query.stream) {
+    // Parse the URL for the connection arguments (if supplied), url.parse can throw:
+    const location = req.url && url.parse(req.url, true);
+
+    if (location && location.query.stream) {
       subscribeWebsocketToChannel(session, firstParam(location.query.stream), location.query);
     }
   });