/**
     * Begins statistics tracking for the specified crawler object.
     * Creates a new statistics object in the cache and starts timing.
     *
     * @param keyObj the crawler object to track (UrlQueue, StatsKeyObject, String, or Number)
     */
    public void begin(final Object keyObj) {
        getCacheKey(keyObj).ifPresent(key -> {
            try {
                statsCache.get(key);

        final CrawlerStatsHelper crawlerStatsHelper = ComponentUtil.getCrawlerStatsHelper();
        final StatsKeyObject keyObj = paramMap.get(Constants.CRAWLER_STATS_KEY) instanceof final StatsKeyObject sko ? sko : null;
        if (keyObj != null) {
            crawlerStatsHelper.runOnThread(keyObj);
        }
        final DataStoreParams localParams = paramMap.newInstance();