diff --git a/.changeset/eager-rats-turn.md b/.changeset/eager-rats-turn.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..74828a901213
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/eager-rats-turn.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@sveltejs/kit': patch
+---
+
+fix: Stop re-loading already-loaded CSS during server-side route resolution
diff --git a/packages/kit/src/runtime/client/utils.js b/packages/kit/src/runtime/client/utils.js
index 5c77c80d22f0..4a62702b9389 100644
--- a/packages/kit/src/runtime/client/utils.js
+++ b/packages/kit/src/runtime/client/utils.js
@@ -323,8 +323,8 @@ export function is_external_url(url, base, hash_routing) {
 	return false;
 }
 
-/** @type {Record<string, boolean>} */
-const seen = {};
+/** @type {Set<string> | null} */
+let seen = null;
 
 /**
  * Used for server-side resolution, to replicate Vite's CSS loading behaviour in production.
@@ -341,13 +341,17 @@ export function load_css(deps) {
 	);
 	const csp_nonce = csp_nonce_meta?.nonce || csp_nonce_meta?.getAttribute('nonce');
 
+	seen ??= new Set(
+		Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="stylesheet"]')).map((link) => {
+			return /** @type {HTMLLinkElement} */ (link).href;
+		})
+	);
+
 	for (const dep of deps) {
-		if (dep in seen) continue;
-		seen[dep] = true;
+		const href = new URL(dep, document.baseURI).href;
 
-		if (document.querySelector(`link[href="${dep}"][rel="stylesheet"]`)) {
-			continue;
-		}
+		if (seen.has(href)) continue;
+		seen.add(href);
 
 		const link = document.createElement('link');
 		link.rel = 'stylesheet';
diff --git a/packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/cross-platform/client.test.js b/packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/cross-platform/client.test.js
index 0a04a1c05b63..36b84c22eeb6 100644
--- a/packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/cross-platform/client.test.js
+++ b/packages/kit/test/apps/basics/test/cross-platform/client.test.js
@@ -927,9 +927,9 @@ test.describe('Routing', () => {
 		// we start watching requests
 		await page.goto('/routing/form-get', { waitUntil: 'load' });
 
-		expect(await page.textContent('h1')).toBe('...');
-		expect(await page.textContent('h2')).toBe('enter');
-		expect(await page.textContent('h3')).toBe('...');
+		await expect(page.locator('h1')).toHaveText('...');
+		await expect(page.locator('h2')).toHaveText('enter');
+		await expect(page.locator('h3')).toHaveText('...');
 
 		/** @type {string[]} */
 		const requests = [];
@@ -939,10 +939,10 @@ test.describe('Routing', () => {
 		await page.locator('button').click();
 
 		// Filter out server-side route resolution request
+		await expect(page.locator('h1')).toHaveText('updated');
+		await expect(page.locator('h2')).toHaveText('form');
+		await expect(page.locator('h3')).toHaveText('bar');
 		expect(requests.filter((r) => !r.includes('__route.js'))).toEqual([]);
-		expect(await page.textContent('h1')).toBe('updated');
-		expect(await page.textContent('h2')).toBe('form');
-		expect(await page.textContent('h3')).toBe('bar');
 	});
 
 	test('responds to <form target="_blank"> submission with new tab', async ({ page }) => {