diff --git a/playground/app.vue b/playground/app.vue
index b416d3f3..7f99351b 100644
--- a/playground/app.vue
+++ b/playground/app.vue
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 <template>
   <div>This page needs no JavaScript (of course!)!</div>
 </template>
-
 <style scoped>
 div {
   color: red;
diff --git a/src/runtime/nitro-plugin.ts b/src/runtime/nitro-plugin.ts
index 244fc55c..53d936c5 100644
--- a/src/runtime/nitro-plugin.ts
+++ b/src/runtime/nitro-plugin.ts
@@ -15,5 +15,12 @@ export default <NitroAppPlugin> function (nitroApp) {
     if (i !== -1) {
       htmlContext.head[i] = htmlContext.head[i].replace(JS_HINT_RE, '')
     }
+
+    // clean up useHead artifacts
+    htmlContext.htmlAttrs = htmlContext.htmlAttrs.filter(a => !a.includes('data-head-attrs'))
+    htmlContext.bodyAttrs = htmlContext.bodyAttrs.filter(a => !a.includes('data-head-attrs'))
+    htmlContext.head = htmlContext.head
+      .map(k => k.replace(/<meta[^>]+name="head:count"[^>]+content="[^>]*"[^>]*>/g, ''))
+      .filter(Boolean)
   })
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e.test.ts b/test/e2e.test.ts
index 26b63e68..9e4b9eca 100644
--- a/test/e2e.test.ts
+++ b/test/e2e.test.ts
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ describe('nuxt zero-js', async () => {
     const html = await $fetch('/')
     expect(html.replace(/\.[^.]+\.css/g, '.css').replace(/ data-v-[^>]*/g, ''))
       .toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
-      "<!DOCTYPE html>
-      <html data-head-attrs=\\"\\">
-      <head><title></title><meta charset=\\"utf-8\\"><meta name=\\"viewport\\" content=\\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\\"><meta name=\\"head:count\\" content=\\"2\\"><link rel=\\"preload\\" as=\\"style\\" href=\\"/_nuxt/entry.css\\"><link rel=\\"stylesheet\\" href=\\"/_nuxt/entry.css\\"></head>
-      <body data-head-attrs=\\"\\"><div id=\\"__nuxt\\"><div>This page needs no JavaScript (of course!)!</div></div></body>
-      </html>"
-    `)
+        "<!DOCTYPE html>
+        <html >
+        <head><title></title><meta charset=\\"utf-8\\"><meta name=\\"viewport\\" content=\\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1\\"><link rel=\\"preload\\" as=\\"style\\" href=\\"/_nuxt/entry.css\\"><link rel=\\"stylesheet\\" href=\\"/_nuxt/entry.css\\"></head>
+        <body ><div id=\\"__nuxt\\"><div>This page needs no JavaScript (of course!)!</div></div></body>
+        </html>"
+      `)
   })
 })
