diff --git a/lib/web/websocket/constants.js b/lib/web/websocket/constants.js
index 2019b5b67a7..66f27245246 100644
--- a/lib/web/websocket/constants.js
+++ b/lib/web/websocket/constants.js
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ const parserStates = {
 const emptyBuffer = Buffer.allocUnsafe(0)
 
 const sendHints = {
-  string: 1,
+  text: 1,
   typedArray: 2,
   arrayBuffer: 3,
   blob: 4
diff --git a/lib/web/websocket/sender.js b/lib/web/websocket/sender.js
index 1b1468d4ab9..1691854a5ae 100644
--- a/lib/web/websocket/sender.js
+++ b/lib/web/websocket/sender.js
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ const { WebsocketFrameSend } = require('./frame')
 const { opcodes, sendHints } = require('./constants')
 const FixedQueue = require('../../dispatcher/fixed-queue')
 
-/** @type {typeof Uint8Array} */
-const FastBuffer = Buffer[Symbol.species]
-
 /**
  * @typedef {object} SendQueueNode
  * @property {Promise<void> | null} promise
@@ -86,18 +83,17 @@ class SendQueue {
 }
 
 function createFrame (data, hint) {
-  return new WebsocketFrameSend(toBuffer(data, hint)).createFrame(hint === sendHints.string ? opcodes.TEXT : opcodes.BINARY)
+  return new WebsocketFrameSend(toBuffer(data, hint)).createFrame(hint === sendHints.text ? opcodes.TEXT : opcodes.BINARY)
 }
 
 function toBuffer (data, hint) {
   switch (hint) {
-    case sendHints.string:
-      return Buffer.from(data)
+    case sendHints.text:
+    case sendHints.typedArray:
+      return new Uint8Array(data.buffer, data.byteOffset, data.byteLength)
     case sendHints.arrayBuffer:
     case sendHints.blob:
-      return new FastBuffer(data)
-    case sendHints.typedArray:
-      return new FastBuffer(data.buffer, data.byteOffset, data.byteLength)
+      return new Uint8Array(data)
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/lib/web/websocket/websocket.js b/lib/web/websocket/websocket.js
index 109d7be2e2f..59de73bfac9 100644
--- a/lib/web/websocket/websocket.js
+++ b/lib/web/websocket/websocket.js
@@ -234,12 +234,12 @@ class WebSocket extends EventTarget {
       // the bufferedAmount attribute by the number of bytes needed to
       // express the argument as UTF-8.
 
-      const length = Buffer.byteLength(data)
+      const buffer = Buffer.from(data)
 
-      this.#bufferedAmount += length
-      this.#sendQueue.add(data, () => {
-        this.#bufferedAmount -= length
-      }, sendHints.string)
+      this.#bufferedAmount += buffer.byteLength
+      this.#sendQueue.add(buffer, () => {
+        this.#bufferedAmount -= buffer.byteLength
+      }, sendHints.text)
     } else if (types.isArrayBuffer(data)) {
       // If the WebSocket connection is established, and the WebSocket
       // closing handshake has not yet started, then the user agent must