diff --git a/Ladybird/Headless/HeadlessWebView.cpp b/Ladybird/Headless/HeadlessWebView.cpp
index 5f7dd72944d..f845392922f 100644
--- a/Ladybird/Headless/HeadlessWebView.cpp
+++ b/Ladybird/Headless/HeadlessWebView.cpp
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ void HeadlessWebView::initialize_client(CreateNewClient create_new_client)
     client().async_set_window_handle(m_client_state.page_index, m_client_state.client_handle);
 
     client().async_update_system_theme(m_client_state.page_index, m_theme);
+    client().async_set_system_visibility_state(m_client_state.page_index, true);
     client().async_set_viewport_size(m_client_state.page_index, viewport_size());
     client().async_set_window_size(m_client_state.page_index, viewport_size());
 
diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.h b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.h
index ebefda9a999..c2cd076e8c0 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.h
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/TraversableNavigable.h
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ private:
     bool m_running_nested_apply_history_step { false };
 
     // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-sequences.html#system-visibility-state
-    VisibilityState m_system_visibility_state { VisibilityState::Visible };
+    VisibilityState m_system_visibility_state { VisibilityState::Hidden };
 
     JS::NonnullGCPtr<SessionHistoryTraversalQueue> m_session_history_traversal_queue;