diff --git a/.readthedocs.yaml b/.readthedocs.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6f83b67
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.readthedocs.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+version: 2
+
+sphinx:
+  builder: html
+  configuration: docs/conf.py
+  fail_on_warning: true
+
+python:
+  version: 3.7
+  install:
+    - method: pip
+      path: .
+      extra_requirements:
+        - readthedocs
+  system_packages: true
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index d2b04be..b0c6f95 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ include CHANGELOG.rst
 include example.py
 include LICENSE
 include tox.ini
+
+global-exclude *.pyc
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index aec5e05..d949f58 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 Asynchronously send metrics to a statsd_ instance.
 
+|build| |coverage| |source|
+
+.. COMMENTED OUT FOR THE TIME BEING
+   |docs| |download| |license|
+
 This library provides connectors to send metrics to a statsd_ instance using either TCP or UDP.
 
 .. code-block:: python
@@ -115,3 +120,16 @@ not connected to the server and will be sent in the order received when the task
 
 .. _statsd: https://github.com/statsd/statsd/
 .. _tornado: https://tornadoweb.org/
+
+.. |build| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/workflow/status/sprockets/sprockets-statsd/Testing/main?style=social
+   :target: https://github.com/sprockets/sprockets-statsd/actions/workflows/run-tests.yml
+.. |coverage| image:: https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/sprockets/sprockets-statsd?style=social
+   :target: https://app.codecov.io/gh/sprockets/sprockets-statsd
+.. |docs| image:: https://img.shields.io/readthedocs/sprockets-statsd.svg?style=social
+   :target: https://sprockets-statsd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest
+.. |download| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/sprockets-statsd.svg?style=social
+   :target: https://pypi.org/project/sprockets-statsd/
+.. |license| image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/sprockets-statsd.svg?style=social
+   :target: https://github.com/sprockets/sprockets-statsd/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
+.. |source| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/source-github.com-green.svg?style=social
+   :target: https://github.com/sprockets/sprockets-statsd
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index ded2401..b90bd16 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@ dev =
     sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.11.1
     tornado>=5
     yapf==0.30.0
+readthedocs =
+    sphinx==3.5.2
+    sphinx-autodoc-typehints==1.11.1
+    tornado>=5
 
 [options.packages.find]
 exclude =