diff --git a/src/browser/page.zig b/src/browser/page.zig
index 88f61764..06fdf018 100644
--- a/src/browser/page.zig
+++ b/src/browser/page.zig
@@ -183,6 +183,11 @@ pub const Page = struct {
 
         // if the url is about:blank, nothing to do.
         if (std.mem.eql(u8, "about:blank", request_url.raw)) {
+            var fbs = std.io.fixedBufferStream("");
+            try self.loadHTMLDoc(fbs.reader(), "utf-8");
+            // We do not processHTMLDoc here as we know we don't have any scripts
+            // This assumption may be false when CDP Page.addScriptToEvaluateOnNewDocument is implemented
+            try HTMLDocument.documentIsComplete(self.window.document.?, &self.state);
             return;
         }
 
@@ -225,6 +230,7 @@ pub const Page = struct {
 
         if (mime.isHTML()) {
             try self.loadHTMLDoc(&response, mime.charset orelse "utf-8");
+            try self.processHTMLDoc();
         } else {
             log.info("non-HTML document: {s}", .{content_type orelse "null"});
             var arr: std.ArrayListUnmanaged(u8) = .{};
@@ -243,11 +249,9 @@ pub const Page = struct {
 
     // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#read-html
     fn loadHTMLDoc(self: *Page, reader: anytype, charset: []const u8) !void {
-        const arena = self.arena;
-
         log.debug("parse html with charset {s}", .{charset});
 
-        const ccharset = try arena.dupeZ(u8, charset);
+        const ccharset = try self.arena.dupeZ(u8, charset);
 
         const html_doc = try parser.documentHTMLParse(reader, ccharset);
         const doc = parser.documentHTMLToDocument(html_doc);
@@ -255,17 +259,6 @@ pub const Page = struct {
         // save a document's pointer in the page.
         self.doc = doc;
 
-        const document_element = (try parser.documentGetDocumentElement(doc)) orelse return error.DocumentElementError;
-        try parser.eventTargetAddEventListener(
-            parser.toEventTarget(parser.Element, document_element),
-            "click",
-            &self.window_clicked_event_node,
-            false,
-        );
-
-        // TODO set document.readyState to interactive
-        // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#reporting-document-loading-status
-
         // inject the URL to the document including the fragment.
         try parser.documentSetDocumentURI(doc, self.url.raw);
 
@@ -274,6 +267,19 @@ pub const Page = struct {
         self.window.setStorageShelf(
             try self.session.storage_shed.getOrPut(try self.origin(self.arena)),
         );
+    }
+
+    fn processHTMLDoc(self: *Page) !void {
+        const doc = self.doc.?;
+        const html_doc = self.window.document.?;
+
+        const document_element = (try parser.documentGetDocumentElement(doc)) orelse return error.DocumentElementError;
+        try parser.eventTargetAddEventListener(
+            parser.toEventTarget(parser.Element, document_element),
+            "click",
+            &self.window_clicked_event_node,
+            false,
+        );
 
         // https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#read-html
 
@@ -320,12 +326,12 @@ pub const Page = struct {
             // > parsing and evaluated as soon as it is available.
             // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/script#async
             if (script.is_async) {
-                try async_scripts.append(arena, script);
+                try async_scripts.append(self.arena, script);
                 continue;
             }
 
             if (script.is_defer) {
-                try defer_scripts.append(arena, script);
+                try defer_scripts.append(self.arena, script);
                 continue;
             }
 
diff --git a/src/cdp/domains/target.zig b/src/cdp/domains/target.zig
index fca78351..662deb34 100644
--- a/src/cdp/domains/target.zig
+++ b/src/cdp/domains/target.zig
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ fn createTarget(cmd: anytype) !void {
     bc.target_id = target_id;
 
     var page = try bc.session.createPage();
+    // Navigate to about:blank such that the window.document are created and set
+    const url = @import("../../url.zig").URL.about_blank;
+    try page.navigate(url, .{});
     {
         const aux_data = try std.fmt.allocPrint(cmd.arena, "{{\"isDefault\":true,\"type\":\"default\",\"frameId\":\"{s}\"}}", .{target_id});
         bc.inspector.contextCreated(
@@ -501,6 +504,10 @@ test "cdp.target: createTarget" {
         // should create a browser context
         const bc = ctx.cdp().browser_context.?;
         try ctx.expectSentEvent("Target.targetCreated", .{ .targetInfo = .{ .url = "about:blank", .title = "about:blank", .attached = false, .type = "page", .canAccessOpener = false, .browserContextId = bc.id, .targetId = bc.target_id.? } }, .{});
+
+        // Even about:blank should set the window.document
+        const page = ctx.cdp().browser_context.?.session.page.?;
+        try testing.expect(page.window.document != null);
     }
 
     {
diff --git a/src/url.zig b/src/url.zig
index 3313eca5..fb28c4af 100644
--- a/src/url.zig
+++ b/src/url.zig
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ pub const URL = struct {
     raw: []const u8,
 
     pub const empty = URL{ .uri = .{ .scheme = "" }, .raw = "" };
+    pub const about_blank = URL{ .uri = .{ .scheme = "" }, .raw = "about:blank" };
 
     // We assume str will last as long as the URL
     // In some cases, this is safe to do, because we know the URL is short lived.