diff --git a/src/client/app/composables/head.ts b/src/client/app/composables/head.ts
index 849fb3b8..2d6ad39b 100644
--- a/src/client/app/composables/head.ts
+++ b/src/client/app/composables/head.ts
@@ -3,69 +3,19 @@ import { HeadConfig, SiteData, processHead } from '../../shared'
 import { Route } from '../router'
 
 export function useUpdateHead(route: Route, siteDataByRouteRef: Ref<SiteData>) {
-  let managedHeadTags: HTMLElement[] = []
-  let isFirstUpdate = true
-
-  const updateHeadTags = (newTags: HeadConfig[]) => {
-    if (import.meta.env.PROD && isFirstUpdate) {
-      // in production, the initial meta tags are already pre-rendered so we
-      // skip the first update.
-      isFirstUpdate = false
-      return
-    }
-
-    const newEls: HTMLElement[] = []
-    const commonLength = Math.min(managedHeadTags.length, newTags.length)
-    for (let i = 0; i < commonLength; i++) {
-      let el = managedHeadTags[i]
-      const [tag, attrs, innerHTML = ''] = newTags[i]
-      if (el.tagName.toLocaleLowerCase() === tag) {
-        for (const key in attrs) {
-          if (el.getAttribute(key) !== attrs[key]) {
-            el.setAttribute(key, attrs[key])
-          }
-        }
-        for (let i = 0; i < el.attributes.length; i++) {
-          const name = el.attributes[i].name
-          if (!(name in attrs)) {
-            el.removeAttribute(name)
-          }
-        }
-        if (el.innerHTML !== innerHTML) {
-          el.innerHTML = innerHTML
-        }
-      } else {
-        document.head.removeChild(el)
-        el = createHeadElement(newTags[i])
-        document.head.append(el)
-      }
-      newEls.push(el)
-    }
-
-    managedHeadTags
-      .slice(commonLength)
-      .forEach((el) => document.head.removeChild(el))
-    newTags.slice(commonLength).forEach((headConfig) => {
-      const el = createHeadElement(headConfig)
-      document.head.appendChild(el)
-      newEls.push(el)
-    })
-    managedHeadTags = newEls
-  }
 
   watchEffect(() => {
     const pageData = route.data
     const siteData = siteDataByRouteRef.value
     const pageTitle = pageData && pageData.title
-    //const pageDescription = pageData && pageData.description
+    const pageDescription = pageData && pageData.description
   
     // update title and description
     document.title = (pageTitle ? pageTitle + ` | ` : ``) + siteData.title
     document
       .querySelector(`meta[name=description]`)!
-      .setAttribute('content', JSON.stringify(siteData.head))//pageDescription || siteData.description)
+      .setAttribute('content', pageDescription || siteData.description)
 
-    updateHeadTags(processHead(siteData.head, pageData))
   })
 }
 
diff --git a/src/client/app/data.ts b/src/client/app/data.ts
index 82c149a7..a3ce5369 100644
--- a/src/client/app/data.ts
+++ b/src/client/app/data.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import { Route } from './router'
 import serializedSiteData from '@siteData'
 import { resolveSiteDataByRoute, PageData, SiteData } from '../shared'
 import { withBase } from './utils'
-import { HeadConfig } from 'dist/vitepress'
 
 export const dataSymbol: InjectionKey<VitePressData> = Symbol()
 
@@ -11,7 +10,6 @@ export interface VitePressData<T = any> {
   site: Ref<SiteData<T>>
   page: Ref<PageData>
   theme: Ref<T>
-  head: Ref<HeadConfig[] | ((pageData: PageData) => HeadConfig[])>
   frontmatter: Ref<PageData['frontmatter']>
   title: Ref<string>
   description: Ref<string>
@@ -45,7 +43,6 @@ export function initData(route: Route): VitePressData {
   return {
     site,
     theme: computed(() => site.value.themeConfig),
-    head: computed(() => site.value.head),
     page: computed(() => route.data),
     frontmatter: computed(() => route.data.frontmatter),
     lang: computed(() => site.value.lang),