diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-link.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-link.ts
index 6efcab60b3..16116ebcfd 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-link.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/nuxt-link.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import type {
 } from 'vue'
 import { computed, defineComponent, h, inject, onBeforeUnmount, onMounted, provide, ref, resolveComponent } from 'vue'
 import type { RouteLocation, RouteLocationRaw, Router, RouterLink, RouterLinkProps, useLink } from '#vue-router'
-import { hasProtocol, joinURL, parseQuery, parseURL, withTrailingSlash, withoutTrailingSlash } from 'ufo'
+import { hasProtocol, joinURL, parseQuery, withTrailingSlash, withoutTrailingSlash } from 'ufo'
 import { preloadRouteComponents } from '../composables/preload'
 import { onNuxtReady } from '../composables/ready'
 import { navigateTo, useRouter } from '../composables/router'
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ export function defineNuxtLink (options: NuxtLinkOptions) {
             get route () {
               if (!href.value) { return undefined }
 
-              const url = parseURL(href.value)
+              const url = new URL(href.value, import.meta.client ? window.location.href : 'http://localhost')
               return {
                 path: url.pathname,
                 fullPath: url.pathname,
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/test-component-wrapper.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/test-component-wrapper.ts
index 1581e09364..8b0da24381 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/test-component-wrapper.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/components/test-component-wrapper.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { parseURL } from 'ufo'
 import { defineComponent, h } from 'vue'
 import { parseQuery } from 'vue-router'
 import { resolve } from 'pathe'
@@ -10,7 +9,7 @@ export default (url: string) => defineComponent({
   name: 'NuxtTestComponentWrapper',
 
   async setup (props, { attrs }) {
-    const query = parseQuery(parseURL(url).search)
+    const query = parseQuery(new URL(url, 'http://localhost').search)
     const urlProps = query.props ? destr<Record<string, any>>(query.props as string) : {}
     const path = resolve(query.path as string)
     if (!path.startsWith(devRootDir)) {
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/payload.client.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/payload.client.ts
index c50b3bd45a..3dc431e63d 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/payload.client.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/payload.client.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import { parseURL } from 'ufo'
 import { defineNuxtPlugin } from '../nuxt'
 import { loadPayload } from '../composables/payload'
 import { onNuxtReady } from '../composables/ready'
@@ -24,7 +23,8 @@ export default defineNuxtPlugin({
     onNuxtReady(() => {
       // Load payload into cache
       nuxtApp.hooks.hook('link:prefetch', async (url) => {
-        if (!parseURL(url).protocol) {
+        const { protocol } = new URL(url, window.location.href)
+        if (!protocol) {
           await loadPayload(url)
         }
       })
diff --git a/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/router.ts b/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/router.ts
index 38c93085d4..8fc32754b2 100644
--- a/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/router.ts
+++ b/packages/nuxt/src/app/plugins/router.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import type { Ref } from 'vue'
 import { computed, defineComponent, h, isReadonly, reactive } from 'vue'
-import { isEqual, joinURL, parseQuery, parseURL, stringifyParsedURL, stringifyQuery, withoutBase } from 'ufo'
+import { isEqual, joinURL, parseQuery, stringifyParsedURL, stringifyQuery, withoutBase } from 'ufo'
 import { createError } from 'h3'
 import { defineNuxtPlugin, useRuntimeConfig } from '../nuxt'
 import { getRouteRules } from '../composables/manifest'
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ function getRouteFromPath (fullPath: string | Partial<Route>) {
     })
   }
 
-  const url = parseURL(fullPath.toString())
+  const url = new URL(fullPath.toString(), import.meta.client ? window.location.href : 'http://localhost')
   return {
     path: url.pathname,
     fullPath,