diff --git a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader.ts b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader.ts
index f7118a38a66e4..841ca3fd1500b 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/build/webpack/loaders/next-app-loader.ts
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import { MiddlewareConfig } from '../../analysis/get-page-static-info'
 import { getFilenameAndExtension } from './next-metadata-route-loader'
 import { isAppBuiltinNotFoundPage } from '../../utils'
 import { loadEntrypoint } from '../../load-entrypoint'
+import { isGroupSegment } from '../../../shared/lib/segment'
 
 export type AppLoaderOptions = {
   name: string
@@ -76,10 +77,6 @@ export type ComponentsType = {
   readonly defaultPage?: ModuleReference
 }
 
-function isGroupSegment(segment: string) {
-  return segment.startsWith('(') && segment.endsWith(')')
-}
-
 async function createAppRouteCode({
   name,
   page,
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/compute-changed-path.ts b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/compute-changed-path.ts
index 763b689083aa6..3a80a5a051b8a 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/compute-changed-path.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/router-reducer/compute-changed-path.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 import { FlightRouterState, Segment } from '../../../server/app-render/types'
 import { INTERCEPTION_ROUTE_MARKERS } from '../../../server/future/helpers/interception-routes'
+import { isGroupSegment } from '../../../shared/lib/segment'
 import { matchSegment } from '../match-segments'
 
+const removeLeadingSlash = (segment: string): string => {
+  return segment[0] === '/' ? segment.slice(1) : segment
+}
+
 const segmentToPathname = (segment: Segment): string => {
   if (typeof segment === 'string') {
     return segment
@@ -10,13 +15,11 @@ const segmentToPathname = (segment: Segment): string => {
   return segment[1]
 }
 
-function normalizePathname(pathname: string): string {
+function normalizeSegments(segments: string[]): string {
   return (
-    pathname.split('/').reduce((acc, segment) => {
-      if (
-        segment === '' ||
-        (segment.startsWith('(') && segment.endsWith(')'))
-      ) {
+    segments.reduce((acc, segment) => {
+      segment = removeLeadingSlash(segment)
+      if (segment === '' || isGroupSegment(segment)) {
         return acc
       }
 
@@ -40,8 +43,7 @@ export function extractPathFromFlightRouterState(
 
   if (segment.startsWith('__PAGE__')) return ''
 
-  const path = [segment]
-
+  const segments = [segment]
   const parallelRoutes = flightRouterState[1] ?? {}
 
   const childrenPath = parallelRoutes.children
@@ -49,7 +51,7 @@ export function extractPathFromFlightRouterState(
     : undefined
 
   if (childrenPath !== undefined) {
-    path.push(childrenPath)
+    segments.push(childrenPath)
   } else {
     for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(parallelRoutes)) {
       if (key === 'children') continue
@@ -57,13 +59,12 @@ export function extractPathFromFlightRouterState(
       const childPath = extractPathFromFlightRouterState(value)
 
       if (childPath !== undefined) {
-        path.push(childPath)
+        segments.push(childPath)
       }
     }
   }
 
-  // TODO-APP: optimise this, it's not ideal to join and split
-  return normalizePathname(path.join('/'))
+  return normalizeSegments(segments)
 }
 
 function computeChangedPathImpl(
@@ -116,5 +117,5 @@ export function computeChangedPath(
   }
 
   // lightweight normalization to remove route groups
-  return normalizePathname(changedPath)
+  return normalizeSegments(changedPath.split('/'))
 }
diff --git a/packages/next/src/shared/lib/router/utils/app-paths.ts b/packages/next/src/shared/lib/router/utils/app-paths.ts
index 59273bdce4ac4..77612edf6d10a 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/shared/lib/router/utils/app-paths.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/shared/lib/router/utils/app-paths.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { ensureLeadingSlash } from '../../page-path/ensure-leading-slash'
+import { isGroupSegment } from '../../segment'
 
 /**
  * Normalizes an app route so it represents the actual request path. Essentially
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ export function normalizeAppPath(route: string) {
       }
 
       // Groups are ignored.
-      if (segment[0] === '(' && segment.endsWith(')')) {
+      if (isGroupSegment(segment)) {
         return pathname
       }
 
diff --git a/packages/next/src/shared/lib/segment.ts b/packages/next/src/shared/lib/segment.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..6167d681ee6e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/next/src/shared/lib/segment.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export function isGroupSegment(segment: string) {
+  // Use array[0] for performant purpose
+  return segment[0] === '(' && segment.endsWith(')')
+}