diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-layout.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-layout.ts
index 7472235a3e..887f5fa9d4 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-layout.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-layout.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import type { DefineComponent, MaybeRef, VNode } from 'vue'
-import { Suspense, Transition, computed, defineComponent, h, inject, mergeProps, nextTick, onMounted, provide, ref, unref } from 'vue'
+import { Suspense, computed, defineComponent, h, inject, mergeProps, nextTick, onMounted, provide, ref, unref } from 'vue'
 import type { RouteLocationNormalizedLoaded } from 'vue-router'
 
 import type { PageMeta } from '../../pages/runtime/composables'
 
 import { useRoute, useRouter } from '../composables/router'
 import { useNuxtApp } from '../nuxt'
-import { _wrapIf } from './utils'
+import { _wrapInTransition } from './utils'
 import { LayoutMetaSymbol, PageRouteSymbol } from './injections'
 
 // @ts-expect-error virtual file
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
       const transitionProps = route.meta.layoutTransition ?? defaultLayoutTransition
 
       // We avoid rendering layout transition if there is no layout to render
-      return _wrapIf(Transition, hasLayout && transitionProps, {
+      return _wrapInTransition(hasLayout && transitionProps, {
         default: () => h(Suspense, { suspensible: true, onResolve: () => { nextTick(done) } }, {
           default: () => h(
             LayoutProvider,
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/utils.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/utils.ts
index 7a38c6fdfc..30157a6162 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/utils.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/utils.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import { createStaticVNode, h } from 'vue'
-import type { Component, RendererNode, VNode } from 'vue'
+import { Transition, createStaticVNode, h } from 'vue'
+import type { RendererNode, VNode } from 'vue'
 // eslint-disable-next-line
 import { isString, isPromise, isArray, isObject } from '@vue/shared'
 import type { RouteLocationNormalized } from 'vue-router'
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@ import { START_LOCATION } from '#build/pages'
  * Internal utility
  * @private
  */
-export const _wrapIf = (component: Component, props: any, slots: any) => {
-  props = props === true ? {} : props
-  return { default: () => props ? h(component, props, slots) : slots.default?.() }
+export const _wrapInTransition = (props: any, children: any) => {
+  return { default: () => import.meta.client && props ? h(Transition, props === true ? {} : props, children) : children.default?.() }
 }
 
 const ROUTE_KEY_PARENTHESES_RE = /(:\w+)\([^)]+\)/g
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
index 3f82ed8393..9deebfdf22 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/pages/runtime/page.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Fragment, Suspense, Transition, defineComponent, h, inject, nextTick, ref, watch } from 'vue'
+import { Fragment, Suspense, defineComponent, h, inject, nextTick, ref, watch } from 'vue'
 import type { KeepAliveProps, TransitionProps, VNode } from 'vue'
 import { RouterView } from 'vue-router'
 import { defu } from 'defu'
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import type { RouterViewSlotProps } from './utils'
 import { RouteProvider } from '#app/components/route-provider'
 import { useNuxtApp } from '#app/nuxt'
 import { useRouter } from '#app/composables/router'
-import { _wrapIf } from '#app/components/utils'
+import { _wrapInTransition } from '#app/components/utils'
 import { LayoutMetaSymbol, PageRouteSymbol } from '#app/components/injections'
 // @ts-expect-error virtual file
 import { appKeepalive as defaultKeepaliveConfig, appPageTransition as defaultPageTransition } from '#build/nuxt.config.mjs'
@@ -101,8 +101,30 @@ export default defineComponent({
             nuxtApp.callHook('page:loading:end')
             pageLoadingEndHookAlreadyCalled = true
           }
+
           previousPageKey = key
 
+          if (import.meta.server) {
+            vnode = h(Suspense, {
+              suspensible: true,
+            }, {
+              default: () => {
+                const providerVNode = h(RouteProvider, {
+                  key: key || undefined,
+                  vnode: slots.default ? h(Fragment, undefined, slots.default(routeProps)) : routeProps.Component,
+                  route: routeProps.route,
+                  renderKey: key || undefined,
+                  vnodeRef: pageRef,
+                })
+                return providerVNode
+              },
+            })
+
+            return vnode
+          }
+
+          // Client side rendering
+
           const hasTransition = !!(props.transition ?? routeProps.route.meta.pageTransition ?? defaultPageTransition)
           const transitionProps = hasTransition && _mergeTransitionProps([
             props.transition,
@@ -112,7 +134,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
           ].filter(Boolean))
 
           const keepaliveConfig = props.keepalive ?? routeProps.route.meta.keepalive ?? (defaultKeepaliveConfig as KeepAliveProps)
-          vnode = _wrapIf(Transition, hasTransition && transitionProps,
+          vnode = _wrapInTransition(hasTransition && transitionProps,
             wrapInKeepAlive(keepaliveConfig, h(Suspense, {
               suspensible: true,
               onPending: () => nuxtApp.callHook('page:start', routeProps.Component),
@@ -134,7 +156,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
                   trackRootNodes: hasTransition,
                   vnodeRef: pageRef,
                 })
-                if (import.meta.client && keepaliveConfig) {
+                if (keepaliveConfig) {
                   (providerVNode.type as any).name = (routeProps.Component.type as any).name || (routeProps.Component.type as any).__name || 'RouteProvider'
                 }
                 return providerVNode
diff --git a/test/bundle.test.ts b/test/bundle.test.ts
index 167a0ab9f6..3cfbc1ba23 100644
--- a/test/bundle.test.ts
+++ b/test/bundle.test.ts
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ describe.skipIf(process.env.SKIP_BUNDLE_SIZE === 'true' || process.env.ECOSYSTEM
     const serverDir = join(rootDir, '.output-inline/server')
 
     const serverStats = await analyzeSizes(['**/*.mjs', '!node_modules'], serverDir)
-    expect.soft(roundToKilobytes(serverStats.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"566k"`)
+    expect.soft(roundToKilobytes(serverStats.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"564k"`)
 
     const modules = await analyzeSizes(['node_modules/**/*'], serverDir)
     expect.soft(roundToKilobytes(modules.totalBytes)).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`"92.3k"`)