diff --git a/fixtures/ssr/server/render.js b/fixtures/ssr/server/render.js
index a4fe698858ab1..e20b9a35dc502 100644
--- a/fixtures/ssr/server/render.js
+++ b/fixtures/ssr/server/render.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import React from 'react';
 import {renderToPipeableStream} from 'react-dom/server';
+import {Writable} from 'stream';
 
 import App from '../src/components/App';
 
@@ -14,11 +15,41 @@ if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development') {
   assets = require('../build/asset-manifest.json');
 }
 
+class ThrottledWritable extends Writable {
+  constructor(destination) {
+    super();
+    this.destination = destination;
+    this.delay = 150;
+  }
+
+  _write(chunk, encoding, callback) {
+    let o = 0;
+    const write = () => {
+      this.destination.write(chunk.slice(o, o + 100), encoding, x => {
+        o += 100;
+        if (o < chunk.length) {
+          setTimeout(write, this.delay);
+        } else {
+          callback(x);
+        }
+      });
+    };
+    setTimeout(write, this.delay);
+  }
+
+  _final(callback) {
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      this.destination.end(callback);
+    }, this.delay);
+  }
+}
+
 export default function render(url, res) {
   res.socket.on('error', error => {
     // Log fatal errors
     console.error('Fatal', error);
   });
+  console.log('hello');
   let didError = false;
   const {pipe, abort} = renderToPipeableStream(<App assets={assets} />, {
     bootstrapScripts: [assets['main.js']],
@@ -26,7 +57,10 @@ export default function render(url, res) {
       // If something errored before we started streaming, we set the error code appropriately.
       res.statusCode = didError ? 500 : 200;
       res.setHeader('Content-type', 'text/html');
-      pipe(res);
+      // To test the actual chunks taking time to load over the network, we throttle
+      // the stream a bit.
+      const throttledResponse = new ThrottledWritable(res);
+      pipe(throttledResponse);
     },
     onShellError(x) {
       // Something errored before we could complete the shell so we emit an alternative shell.
diff --git a/fixtures/ssr/src/components/Chrome.js b/fixtures/ssr/src/components/Chrome.js
index 5cf81a877f7e3..984c726a02652 100644
--- a/fixtures/ssr/src/components/Chrome.js
+++ b/fixtures/ssr/src/components/Chrome.js
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ export default class Chrome extends Component {
               </div>
             </Theme.Provider>
           </Suspense>
+          <p>This should appear in the first paint.</p>
           <script
             dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{
               __html: `assetManifest = ${JSON.stringify(assets)};`,
diff --git a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
index abdbf1a4f1c24..6109a0f023ace 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM.js
@@ -120,12 +120,13 @@ const ScriptStreamingFormat: StreamingFormat = 0;
 const DataStreamingFormat: StreamingFormat = 1;
 
 export type InstructionState = number;
-const NothingSent /*                      */ = 0b00000;
-const SentCompleteSegmentFunction /*      */ = 0b00001;
-const SentCompleteBoundaryFunction /*     */ = 0b00010;
-const SentClientRenderFunction /*         */ = 0b00100;
-const SentStyleInsertionFunction /*       */ = 0b01000;
-const SentFormReplayingRuntime /*         */ = 0b10000;
+const NothingSent /*                      */ = 0b000000;
+const SentCompleteSegmentFunction /*      */ = 0b000001;
+const SentCompleteBoundaryFunction /*     */ = 0b000010;
+const SentClientRenderFunction /*         */ = 0b000100;
+const SentStyleInsertionFunction /*       */ = 0b001000;
+const SentFormReplayingRuntime /*         */ = 0b010000;
+const SentCompletedShellId /*             */ = 0b100000;
 
 // Per request, global state that is not contextual to the rendering subtree.
 // This cannot be resumed and therefore should only contain things that are
@@ -289,15 +290,15 @@ export type ResumableState = {
 
 const dataElementQuotedEnd = stringToPrecomputedChunk('"></template>');
 
-const startInlineScript = stringToPrecomputedChunk('<script>');
+const startInlineScript = stringToPrecomputedChunk('<script');
 const endInlineScript = stringToPrecomputedChunk('</script>');
 
 const startScriptSrc = stringToPrecomputedChunk('<script src="');
 const startModuleSrc = stringToPrecomputedChunk('<script type="module" src="');
-const scriptNonce = stringToPrecomputedChunk('" nonce="');
-const scriptIntegirty = stringToPrecomputedChunk('" integrity="');
-const scriptCrossOrigin = stringToPrecomputedChunk('" crossorigin="');
-const endAsyncScript = stringToPrecomputedChunk('" async=""></script>');
+const scriptNonce = stringToPrecomputedChunk(' nonce="');
+const scriptIntegirty = stringToPrecomputedChunk(' integrity="');
+const scriptCrossOrigin = stringToPrecomputedChunk(' crossorigin="');
+const endAsyncScript = stringToPrecomputedChunk(' async=""></script>');
 
 /**
  * This escaping function is designed to work with with inline scripts where the entire
@@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ export function createRenderState(
     nonce === undefined
       ? startInlineScript
       : stringToPrecomputedChunk(
-          '<script nonce="' + escapeTextForBrowser(nonce) + '">',
+          '<script nonce="' + escapeTextForBrowser(nonce) + '"',
         );
   const idPrefix = resumableState.idPrefix;
 
@@ -376,8 +377,10 @@ export function createRenderState(
   const {bootstrapScriptContent, bootstrapScripts, bootstrapModules} =
     resumableState;
   if (bootstrapScriptContent !== undefined) {
+    bootstrapChunks.push(inlineScriptWithNonce);
+    pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(bootstrapChunks, resumableState);
     bootstrapChunks.push(
-      inlineScriptWithNonce,
+      endOfStartTag,
       stringToChunk(escapeEntireInlineScriptContent(bootstrapScriptContent)),
       endInlineScript,
     );
@@ -527,25 +530,30 @@ export function createRenderState(
       bootstrapChunks.push(
         startScriptSrc,
         stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(src)),
+        attributeEnd,
       );
       if (nonce) {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptNonce,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(nonce)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
       if (typeof integrity === 'string') {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptIntegirty,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(integrity)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
       if (typeof crossOrigin === 'string') {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptCrossOrigin,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(crossOrigin)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
+      pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(bootstrapChunks, resumableState);
       bootstrapChunks.push(endAsyncScript);
     }
   }
@@ -579,26 +587,30 @@ export function createRenderState(
       bootstrapChunks.push(
         startModuleSrc,
         stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(src)),
+        attributeEnd,
       );
-
       if (nonce) {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptNonce,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(nonce)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
       if (typeof integrity === 'string') {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptIntegirty,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(integrity)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
       if (typeof crossOrigin === 'string') {
         bootstrapChunks.push(
           scriptCrossOrigin,
           stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(crossOrigin)),
+          attributeEnd,
         );
       }
+      pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(bootstrapChunks, resumableState);
       bootstrapChunks.push(endAsyncScript);
     }
   }
@@ -1960,11 +1972,32 @@ function injectFormReplayingRuntime(
     (!enableFizzExternalRuntime || !renderState.externalRuntimeScript)
   ) {
     resumableState.instructions |= SentFormReplayingRuntime;
-    renderState.bootstrapChunks.unshift(
-      renderState.startInlineScript,
-      formReplayingRuntimeScript,
-      endInlineScript,
-    );
+    const preamble = renderState.preamble;
+    const bootstrapChunks = renderState.bootstrapChunks;
+    if (
+      (preamble.htmlChunks || preamble.headChunks) &&
+      bootstrapChunks.length === 0
+    ) {
+      // If we rendered the whole document, then we emitted a rel="expect" that needs a
+      // matching target. If we haven't emitted that yet, we need to include it in this
+      // script tag.
+      bootstrapChunks.push(renderState.startInlineScript);
+      pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(bootstrapChunks, resumableState);
+      bootstrapChunks.push(
+        endOfStartTag,
+        formReplayingRuntimeScript,
+        endInlineScript,
+      );
+    } else {
+      // Otherwise we added to the beginning of the scripts. This will mean that it
+      // appears before the shell ID unfortunately.
+      bootstrapChunks.unshift(
+        renderState.startInlineScript,
+        endOfStartTag,
+        formReplayingRuntimeScript,
+        endInlineScript,
+      );
+    }
   }
 }
 
@@ -4075,8 +4108,21 @@ function writeBootstrap(
 
 export function writeCompletedRoot(
   destination: Destination,
+  resumableState: ResumableState,
   renderState: RenderState,
 ): boolean {
+  const preamble = renderState.preamble;
+  if (preamble.htmlChunks || preamble.headChunks) {
+    // If we rendered the whole document, then we emitted a rel="expect" that needs a
+    // matching target. Normally we use one of the bootstrap scripts for this but if
+    // there are none, then we need to emit a tag to complete the shell.
+    if ((resumableState.instructions & SentCompletedShellId) === NothingSent) {
+      const bootstrapChunks = renderState.bootstrapChunks;
+      bootstrapChunks.push(startChunkForTag('template'));
+      pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(bootstrapChunks, resumableState);
+      bootstrapChunks.push(endOfStartTag, endChunkForTag('template'));
+    }
+  }
   return writeBootstrap(destination, renderState);
 }
 
@@ -4400,6 +4446,7 @@ export function writeCompletedSegmentInstruction(
     resumableState.streamingFormat === ScriptStreamingFormat;
   if (scriptFormat) {
     writeChunk(destination, renderState.startInlineScript);
+    writeChunk(destination, endOfStartTag);
     if (
       (resumableState.instructions & SentCompleteSegmentFunction) ===
       NothingSent
@@ -4481,6 +4528,7 @@ export function writeCompletedBoundaryInstruction(
     resumableState.streamingFormat === ScriptStreamingFormat;
   if (scriptFormat) {
     writeChunk(destination, renderState.startInlineScript);
+    writeChunk(destination, endOfStartTag);
     if (requiresStyleInsertion) {
       if (
         (resumableState.instructions & SentCompleteBoundaryFunction) ===
@@ -4591,6 +4639,7 @@ export function writeClientRenderBoundaryInstruction(
     resumableState.streamingFormat === ScriptStreamingFormat;
   if (scriptFormat) {
     writeChunk(destination, renderState.startInlineScript);
+    writeChunk(destination, endOfStartTag);
     if (
       (resumableState.instructions & SentClientRenderFunction) ===
       NothingSent
@@ -4933,6 +4982,44 @@ function preloadLateStyles(this: Destination, styleQueue: StyleQueue) {
   styleQueue.sheets.clear();
 }
 
+const blockingRenderChunkStart = stringToPrecomputedChunk(
+  '<link rel="expect" href="#',
+);
+const blockingRenderChunkEnd = stringToPrecomputedChunk(
+  '" blocking="render"/>',
+);
+
+function writeBlockingRenderInstruction(
+  destination: Destination,
+  resumableState: ResumableState,
+  renderState: RenderState,
+): void {
+  const idPrefix = resumableState.idPrefix;
+  const shellId = '\u00AB' + idPrefix + 'R\u00BB';
+  writeChunk(destination, blockingRenderChunkStart);
+  writeChunk(destination, stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(shellId)));
+  writeChunk(destination, blockingRenderChunkEnd);
+}
+
+const completedShellIdAttributeStart = stringToPrecomputedChunk(' id="');
+
+function pushCompletedShellIdAttribute(
+  target: Array<Chunk | PrecomputedChunk>,
+  resumableState: ResumableState,
+): void {
+  if ((resumableState.instructions & SentCompletedShellId) !== NothingSent) {
+    return;
+  }
+  resumableState.instructions |= SentCompletedShellId;
+  const idPrefix = resumableState.idPrefix;
+  const shellId = '\u00AB' + idPrefix + 'R\u00BB';
+  target.push(
+    completedShellIdAttributeStart,
+    stringToChunk(escapeTextForBrowser(shellId)),
+    attributeEnd,
+  );
+}
+
 // We don't bother reporting backpressure at the moment because we expect to
 // flush the entire preamble in a single pass. This probably should be modified
 // in the future to be backpressure sensitive but that requires a larger refactor
@@ -4942,6 +5029,7 @@ export function writePreambleStart(
   resumableState: ResumableState,
   renderState: RenderState,
   willFlushAllSegments: boolean,
+  skipExpect?: boolean, // Used as an override by ReactFizzConfigMarkup
 ): void {
   // This function must be called exactly once on every request
   if (
@@ -5027,6 +5115,16 @@ export function writePreambleStart(
   renderState.bulkPreloads.forEach(flushResource, destination);
   renderState.bulkPreloads.clear();
 
+  if ((htmlChunks || headChunks) && !skipExpect) {
+    // If we have any html or head chunks we know that we're rendering a full document.
+    // A full document should block display until the full shell has downloaded.
+    // Therefore we insert a render blocking instruction referring to the last body
+    // element that's considered part of the shell. We do this after the important loads
+    // have already been emitted so we don't do anything to delay them but early so that
+    // the browser doesn't risk painting too early.
+    writeBlockingRenderInstruction(destination, resumableState, renderState);
+  }
+
   // Write embedding hoistableChunks
   const hoistableChunks = renderState.hoistableChunks;
   for (i = 0; i < hoistableChunks.length; i++) {
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
index 48ffb10860e20..d543d91aedfcf 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServer-test.js
@@ -3580,7 +3580,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
     expect(document.head.innerHTML).toBe(
       '<script type="importmap">' +
         JSON.stringify(importMap) +
-        '</script><script async="" src="foo"></script>',
+        '</script><script async="" src="foo"></script>' +
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render">',
     );
   });
 
@@ -4189,7 +4190,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
         renderOptions.unstable_externalRuntimeSrc,
       ).map(n => n.outerHTML),
     ).toEqual([
-      '<script src="foo" async=""></script>',
+      '<script src="foo" id="«R»" async=""></script>',
       '<script src="bar" async=""></script>',
       '<script src="baz" integrity="qux" async=""></script>',
       '<script type="module" src="quux" async=""></script>',
@@ -4276,7 +4277,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
         renderOptions.unstable_externalRuntimeSrc,
       ).map(n => n.outerHTML),
     ).toEqual([
-      '<script src="foo" async=""></script>',
+      '<script src="foo" id="«R»" async=""></script>',
       '<script src="bar" async=""></script>',
       '<script src="baz" crossorigin="" async=""></script>',
       '<script src="qux" crossorigin="" async=""></script>',
@@ -4512,7 +4513,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
 
     // the html should be as-is
     expect(document.documentElement.innerHTML).toEqual(
-      '<head></head><body><p>hello world!</p></body>',
+      '<head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"></head><body><p>hello world!</p><template id="«R»"></template></body>',
     );
   });
 
@@ -6492,7 +6493,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServer', () => {
     });
 
     expect(document.documentElement.outerHTML).toEqual(
-      '<html><head></head><body><script>try { foo() } catch (e) {} ;</script></body></html>',
+      '<html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"></head><body><script>try { foo() } catch (e) {} ;</script><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser-test.js
index 4022f227a8abe..f5b01d2462403 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser-test.js
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser', () => {
     );
     const result = await readResult(stream);
     expect(result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello world</body></html>"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head><body>hello world<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser', () => {
     );
     const result = await readResult(stream);
     expect(result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script>INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser', () => {
 
     const result = await readResult(stream);
     expect(result).toEqual(
-      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>foo</title></head><body>bar</body></html>',
+      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/><title>foo</title></head><body>bar<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerBrowser', () => {
     expect(result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
       // TODO: remove interpolation because it prevents snapshot updates.
       // eslint-disable-next-line jest/no-interpolation-in-snapshots
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" nonce="R4nd0m" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" nonce="R4nd0m" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script nonce="${nonce}">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" nonce="${nonce}" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" nonce="${nonce}" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" nonce="R4nd0m" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" nonce="R4nd0m" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script nonce="${nonce}" id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" nonce="${nonce}" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" nonce="${nonce}" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerEdge-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerEdge-test.js
index c442f1813836c..1eefe1a4082e6 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerEdge-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerEdge-test.js
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerEdge', () => {
     });
 
     expect(result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body><main>hello</main></body></html>"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head><body><main>hello</main><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>"`,
     );
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerNode-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerNode-test.js
index e97b4a29a7497..2704c243eba48 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerNode-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzServerNode-test.js
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerNode', () => {
     });
     // with Float, we emit empty heads if they are elided when rendering <html>
     expect(output.result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello world</body></html>"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head><body>hello world<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzServerNode', () => {
       pipe(writable);
     });
     expect(output.result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script>INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStatic-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStatic-test.js
index 96e6538cd2196..de6e21b557a1d 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStatic-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStatic-test.js
@@ -106,7 +106,10 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStatic', () => {
           node.tagName !== 'TEMPLATE' &&
           node.tagName !== 'template' &&
           !node.hasAttribute('hidden') &&
-          !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden')
+          !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden') &&
+          // Ignore the render blocking expect
+          (node.getAttribute('rel') !== 'expect' ||
+            node.getAttribute('blocking') !== 'render')
         ) {
           const props = {};
           const attributes = node.attributes;
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
index f973a5ed4d6e0..7eecb16cf82f6 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser-test.js
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     );
     const prelude = await readContent(result.prelude);
     expect(prelude).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello world</body></html>"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head><body>hello world<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     );
     const prelude = await readContent(result.prelude);
     expect(prelude).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script>INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -1428,7 +1428,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     expect(await readContent(content)).toBe(
       '<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>' +
         '<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-style" data-precedence="high"/>' +
-        '</head><body>Hello</body></html>',
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body>Hello<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
@@ -1474,7 +1475,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     expect(await readContent(content)).toBe(
       '<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>' +
         '<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-style" data-precedence="high"/>' +
-        '</head><body>Hello</body></html>',
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body>Hello<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
@@ -1525,7 +1527,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     expect(await readContent(content)).toBe(
       '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>' +
         '<link rel="stylesheet" href="my-style" data-precedence="high"/>' +
-        '</head><body><div>Hello</div></body></html>',
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body><div>Hello</div><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
@@ -1607,7 +1610,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     let result = decoder.decode(value, {stream: true});
 
     expect(result).toBe(
-      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello<!--$?--><template id="B:1"></template><!--/$-->',
+      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body>hello<!--$?--><template id="B:1"></template><!--/$--><template id="«R»"></template>',
     );
 
     await 1;
@@ -1631,7 +1635,9 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticBrowser', () => {
     const slice = result.slice(0, instructionIndex + '$RC'.length);
 
     expect(slice).toBe(
-      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello<!--$?--><template id="B:1"></template><!--/$--><div hidden id="S:1">world<!-- --></div><script>$RC',
+      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body>hello<!--$?--><template id="B:1"></template><!--/$--><template id="«R»"></template>' +
+        '<div hidden id="S:1">world<!-- --></div><script>$RC',
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticNode-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticNode-test.js
index 12ac4de34d684..d9bd7c70db0b4 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticNode-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFizzStaticNode-test.js
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticNode', () => {
     );
     const prelude = await readContent(result.prelude);
     expect(prelude).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head></head><body>hello world</body></html>"`,
+      `"<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head><body>hello world<template id="«R»"></template></body></html>"`,
     );
   });
 
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMFizzStaticNode', () => {
     );
     const prelude = await readContent(result.prelude);
     expect(prelude).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script>INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js
index 7404cec64a00c..5328a4ac9e055 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMFloat-test.js
@@ -250,7 +250,10 @@ describe('ReactDOMFloat', () => {
             node.tagName !== 'TEMPLATE' &&
             node.tagName !== 'template' &&
             !node.hasAttribute('hidden') &&
-            !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden'))
+            !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden') &&
+            // Ignore the render blocking expect
+            (node.getAttribute('rel') !== 'expect' ||
+              node.getAttribute('blocking') !== 'render'))
         ) {
           const props = {};
           const attributes = node.attributes;
@@ -690,7 +693,9 @@ describe('ReactDOMFloat', () => {
       pipe(writable);
     });
     expect(chunks).toEqual([
-      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script async="" src="foo"></script><title>foo</title></head><body>bar',
+      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><script async="" src="foo"></script>' +
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/><title>foo</title></head>' +
+        '<body>bar<template id="«R»"></template>',
       '</body></html>',
     ]);
   });
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMLegacyFloat-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMLegacyFloat-test.js
index 52c9746abdb4f..f2cabafc9f575 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMLegacyFloat-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMLegacyFloat-test.js
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ describe('ReactDOMFloat', () => {
     );
 
     expect(result).toEqual(
-      '<html><head><meta charSet="utf-8"/><title>title</title><script src="foo"></script></head></html>',
+      '<html><head><meta charSet="utf-8"/><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/>' +
+        '<title>title</title><script src="foo"></script></head><template id="«R»"></template></html>',
     );
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMSingletonComponents-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMSingletonComponents-test.js
index 84db05bc779db..d887972e92ca1 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMSingletonComponents-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactDOMSingletonComponents-test.js
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@ describe('ReactDOM HostSingleton', () => {
             el.tagName !== 'TEMPLATE' &&
             el.tagName !== 'template' &&
             !el.hasAttribute('hidden') &&
-            !el.hasAttribute('aria-hidden')) ||
+            !el.hasAttribute('aria-hidden') &&
+            // Ignore the render blocking expect
+            (node.getAttribute('rel') !== 'expect' ||
+              node.getAttribute('blocking') !== 'render')) ||
           el.hasAttribute('data-meaningful')
         ) {
           const props = {};
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactRenderDocument-test.js b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactRenderDocument-test.js
index 9522a920bc291..2b54bc90090e4 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactRenderDocument-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/__tests__/ReactRenderDocument-test.js
@@ -77,12 +77,16 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
       await act(() => {
         root = ReactDOMClient.hydrateRoot(testDocument, <Root hello="world" />);
       });
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Hello world');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        'Hello world' + '<template id="«R»"></template>',
+      );
 
       await act(() => {
         root.render(<Root hello="moon" />);
       });
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Hello moon');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        'Hello moon' + '<template id="«R»"></template>',
+      );
 
       expect(body === testDocument.body).toBe(true);
     });
@@ -107,7 +111,9 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
       await act(() => {
         root = ReactDOMClient.hydrateRoot(testDocument, <Root />);
       });
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Hello world');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        'Hello world' + '<template id="«R»"></template>',
+      );
 
       const originalDocEl = testDocument.documentElement;
       const originalHead = testDocument.head;
@@ -118,8 +124,10 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
       expect(testDocument.firstChild).toBe(originalDocEl);
       expect(testDocument.head).toBe(originalHead);
       expect(testDocument.body).toBe(originalBody);
-      expect(originalBody.firstChild).toEqual(null);
-      expect(originalHead.firstChild).toEqual(null);
+      expect(originalBody.innerHTML).toBe('<template id="«R»"></template>');
+      expect(originalHead.innerHTML).toBe(
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render">',
+      );
     });
 
     it('should not be able to switch root constructors', async () => {
@@ -157,13 +165,17 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
         root = ReactDOMClient.hydrateRoot(testDocument, <Component />);
       });
 
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Hello world');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        'Hello world' + '<template id="«R»"></template>',
+      );
 
       await act(() => {
         root.render(<Component2 />);
       });
 
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Goodbye world');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        '<template id="«R»"></template>' + 'Goodbye world',
+      );
     });
 
     it('should be able to mount into document', async () => {
@@ -192,7 +204,9 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
         );
       });
 
-      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe('Hello world');
+      expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
+        'Hello world' + '<template id="«R»"></template>',
+      );
     });
 
     it('cannot render over an existing text child at the root', async () => {
@@ -325,7 +339,9 @@ describe('rendering React components at document', () => {
           : [],
       );
       expect(testDocument.body.innerHTML).toBe(
-        favorSafetyOverHydrationPerf ? 'Hello world' : 'Goodbye world',
+        favorSafetyOverHydrationPerf
+          ? 'Hello world'
+          : 'Goodbye world<template id="«R»"></template>',
       );
     });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-dom/src/test-utils/FizzTestUtils.js b/packages/react-dom/src/test-utils/FizzTestUtils.js
index 537c64a889a7d..12c768e1a0008 100644
--- a/packages/react-dom/src/test-utils/FizzTestUtils.js
+++ b/packages/react-dom/src/test-utils/FizzTestUtils.js
@@ -150,7 +150,10 @@ function getVisibleChildren(element: Element): React$Node {
         node.tagName !== 'TEMPLATE' &&
         node.tagName !== 'template' &&
         !node.hasAttribute('hidden') &&
-        !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden')
+        !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden') &&
+        // Ignore the render blocking expect
+        (node.getAttribute('rel') !== 'expect' ||
+          node.getAttribute('blocking') !== 'render')
       ) {
         const props: any = {};
         const attributes = node.attributes;
diff --git a/packages/react-markup/src/ReactFizzConfigMarkup.js b/packages/react-markup/src/ReactFizzConfigMarkup.js
index 3d08ed1ee64a2..444952dc58502 100644
--- a/packages/react-markup/src/ReactFizzConfigMarkup.js
+++ b/packages/react-markup/src/ReactFizzConfigMarkup.js
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ import type {
   FormatContext,
 } from 'react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM';
 
-import {pushStartInstance as pushStartInstanceImpl} from 'react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM';
+import {
+  pushStartInstance as pushStartInstanceImpl,
+  writePreambleStart as writePreambleStartImpl,
+} from 'react-dom-bindings/src/server/ReactFizzConfigDOM';
 
 import type {
   Destination,
@@ -62,13 +65,11 @@ export {
   writeEndPendingSuspenseBoundary,
   writeHoistablesForBoundary,
   writePlaceholder,
-  writeCompletedRoot,
   createRootFormatContext,
   createRenderState,
   createResumableState,
   createPreambleState,
   createHoistableState,
-  writePreambleStart,
   writePreambleEnd,
   writeHoistables,
   writePostamble,
@@ -203,5 +204,30 @@ export function writeEndClientRenderedSuspenseBoundary(
   return true;
 }
 
+export function writePreambleStart(
+  destination: Destination,
+  resumableState: ResumableState,
+  renderState: RenderState,
+  willFlushAllSegments: boolean,
+  skipExpect?: boolean, // Used as an override by ReactFizzConfigMarkup
+): void {
+  return writePreambleStartImpl(
+    destination,
+    resumableState,
+    renderState,
+    willFlushAllSegments,
+    true, // skipExpect
+  );
+}
+
+export function writeCompletedRoot(
+  destination: Destination,
+  resumableState: ResumableState,
+  renderState: RenderState,
+): boolean {
+  // Markup doesn't have any bootstrap scripts nor shell completions.
+  return true;
+}
+
 export type TransitionStatus = FormStatus;
 export const NotPendingTransition: TransitionStatus = NotPending;
diff --git a/packages/react-server-dom-fb/src/__tests__/ReactDOMServerFB-test.internal.js b/packages/react-server-dom-fb/src/__tests__/ReactDOMServerFB-test.internal.js
index 35b41cbd230d0..6d022ceb26c17 100644
--- a/packages/react-server-dom-fb/src/__tests__/ReactDOMServerFB-test.internal.js
+++ b/packages/react-server-dom-fb/src/__tests__/ReactDOMServerFB-test.internal.js
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ describe('ReactDOMServerFB', () => {
     });
     const result = readResult(stream);
     expect(result).toMatchInlineSnapshot(
-      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script>INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
+      `"<link rel="preload" as="script" fetchPriority="low" href="init.js"/><link rel="modulepreload" fetchPriority="low" href="init.mjs"/><div>hello world</div><script id="«R»">INIT();</script><script src="init.js" async=""></script><script type="module" src="init.mjs" async=""></script>"`,
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOM-test.js b/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOM-test.js
index 0b16b3b32114d..80562624eb173 100644
--- a/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOM-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOM-test.js
@@ -193,7 +193,10 @@ describe('ReactFlightDOM', () => {
             node.tagName !== 'TEMPLATE' &&
             node.tagName !== 'template' &&
             !node.hasAttribute('hidden') &&
-            !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden'))
+            !node.hasAttribute('aria-hidden') &&
+            // Ignore the render blocking expect
+            (node.getAttribute('rel') !== 'expect' ||
+              node.getAttribute('blocking') !== 'render'))
         ) {
           const props = {};
           const attributes = node.attributes;
@@ -1917,11 +1920,15 @@ describe('ReactFlightDOM', () => {
 
     expect(content1).toEqual(
       '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="preload" href="before1" as="style"/>' +
-        '<link rel="preload" href="after1" as="style"/></head><body><p>hello world</p></body></html>',
+        '<link rel="preload" href="after1" as="style"/>' +
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body><p>hello world</p><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
     expect(content2).toEqual(
       '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="preload" href="before2" as="style"/>' +
-        '<link rel="preload" href="after2" as="style"/></head><body><p>hello world</p></body></html>',
+        '<link rel="preload" href="after2" as="style"/>' +
+        '<link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body><p>hello world</p><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOMBrowser-test.js b/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOMBrowser-test.js
index f3fa444fc1528..4313c379b70bd 100644
--- a/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOMBrowser-test.js
+++ b/packages/react-server-dom-webpack/src/__tests__/ReactFlightDOMBrowser-test.js
@@ -1899,8 +1899,8 @@ describe('ReactFlightDOMBrowser', () => {
     }
 
     expect(content).toEqual(
-      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head>' +
-        '</head><body><p>hello world</p></body></html>',
+      '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><link rel="expect" href="#«R»" blocking="render"/></head>' +
+        '<body><p>hello world</p><template id="«R»"></template></body></html>',
     );
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
index 487751c6be385..52d677ad1be40 100644
--- a/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
+++ b/packages/react-server/src/ReactFizzServer.js
@@ -5157,7 +5157,11 @@ function flushCompletedQueues(
       );
       flushSegment(request, destination, completedRootSegment, null);
       request.completedRootSegment = null;
-      writeCompletedRoot(destination, request.renderState);
+      writeCompletedRoot(
+        destination,
+        request.resumableState,
+        request.renderState,
+      );
     }
 
     writeHoistables(destination, request.resumableState, request.renderState);