diff --git a/examples/vue-router/app.js b/examples/vue-router/app.js
index 0342a95..2e7b5dc 100644
--- a/examples/vue-router/app.js
+++ b/examples/vue-router/app.js
@@ -11,8 +11,18 @@ const ChildComponent = {
   template: `<h3>You're looking at the <strong>{{ page }}</strong> page</h3>`,
   metaInfo () {
     return {
-      title: this.page
+      title: `${this.page} - ${this.date && this.date.toTimeString()}`
     }
+  },
+  data() {
+    return {
+      date: null
+    };
+  },
+  mounted() {
+    setInterval(() => {
+      this.date = new Date();
+    }, 1000);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/src/shared/mixin.js b/src/shared/mixin.js
index 742c353..89b2b74 100644
--- a/src/shared/mixin.js
+++ b/src/shared/mixin.js
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ export default function createMixin(options) {
   const updateOnLifecycleHook = ['activated', 'deactivated', 'beforeMount']
 
   const triggerUpdate = (vm) => {
-    // batch potential DOM updates to prevent extraneous re-rendering
-    batchID = batchUpdate(batchID, () => vm.$meta().refresh())
+    if (vm.$root._vueMetaInitialized) {
+      // batch potential DOM updates to prevent extraneous re-rendering
+      batchID = batchUpdate(batchID, () => vm.$meta().refresh())
+    }
   }
 
   // watch for client side component updates
@@ -46,6 +48,24 @@ export default function createMixin(options) {
           this.$options[lifecycleHook].push(() => triggerUpdate(this))
         })
 
+        // force an initial refresh on page load and prevent other lifecycleHooks
+        // to triggerUpdate until this initial refresh is finished
+        // this is to make sure that when a page is opened in an inactive tab which
+        // has throttled rAF/timers we still immeditately set the page title
+        if (isUndefined(this.$root._vueMetaInitialized)) {
+          this.$root._vueMetaInitialized = false
+
+          this.$root.$options.mounted = this.$root.$options.mounted || []
+          this.$root.$options.mounted.push(() => {
+            if (!this.$root._vueMetaInitialized) {
+              this.$nextTick(function () {
+                this.$root.$meta().refresh()
+                this.$root._vueMetaInitialized = true
+              })
+            }
+          })
+        }
+
         // do not trigger refresh on the server side
         if (!this.$isServer) {
           // re-render meta data when returning from a child component to parent