diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/importAnalysis.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/importAnalysis.ts
index f9e8fa879bb28a..001a21dab43530 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/importAnalysis.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/plugins/importAnalysis.ts
@@ -356,7 +356,12 @@ export function importAnalysisPlugin(config: ResolvedConfig): Plugin {
           // its last updated timestamp to force the browser to fetch the most
           // up-to-date version of this module.
           try {
-            const depModule = await moduleGraph.ensureEntryFromUrl(url, ssr)
+            // delay setting `isSelfAccepting` until the file is actually used (#7870)
+            const depModule = await moduleGraph.ensureEntryFromUrl(
+              url,
+              ssr,
+              canSkipImportAnalysis(url)
+            )
             if (depModule.lastHMRTimestamp > 0) {
               url = injectQuery(url, `t=${depModule.lastHMRTimestamp}`)
             }
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/server/hmr.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/server/hmr.ts
index e12f1a2effd244..f96e9353ce0450 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/server/hmr.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/server/hmr.ts
@@ -169,18 +169,24 @@ export function updateModules(
     ws.send({
       type: 'full-reload'
     })
-  } else {
-    config.logger.info(
-      updates
-        .map(({ path }) => colors.green(`hmr update `) + colors.dim(path))
-        .join('\n'),
-      { clear: true, timestamp: true }
-    )
-    ws.send({
-      type: 'update',
-      updates
-    })
+    return
   }
+
+  if (updates.length === 0) {
+    debugHmr(colors.yellow(`no update happened `) + colors.dim(file))
+    return
+  }
+
+  config.logger.info(
+    updates
+      .map(({ path }) => colors.green(`hmr update `) + colors.dim(path))
+      .join('\n'),
+    { clear: true, timestamp: true }
+  )
+  ws.send({
+    type: 'update',
+    updates
+  })
 }
 
 export async function handleFileAddUnlink(
diff --git a/packages/vite/src/node/server/moduleGraph.ts b/packages/vite/src/node/server/moduleGraph.ts
index e925ed85b06a22..45fea171ddcc1e 100644
--- a/packages/vite/src/node/server/moduleGraph.ts
+++ b/packages/vite/src/node/server/moduleGraph.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ import { extname } from 'node:path'
 import { parse as parseUrl } from 'node:url'
 import type { ModuleInfo, PartialResolvedId } from 'rollup'
 import { isDirectCSSRequest } from '../plugins/css'
-import { isHTMLRequest } from '../plugins/html'
 import {
   cleanUrl,
   normalizePath,
@@ -10,7 +9,6 @@ import {
   removeTimestampQuery
 } from '../utils'
 import { FS_PREFIX } from '../constants'
-import { canSkipImportAnalysis } from '../plugins/importAnalysis'
 import type { TransformResult } from './transformRequest'
 
 export class ModuleNode {
@@ -39,13 +37,13 @@ export class ModuleNode {
   lastHMRTimestamp = 0
   lastInvalidationTimestamp = 0
 
-  constructor(url: string) {
+  /**
+   * @param setIsSelfAccepting - set `false` to set `isSelfAccepting` later. e.g. #7870
+   */
+  constructor(url: string, setIsSelfAccepting = true) {
     this.url = url
     this.type = isDirectCSSRequest(url) ? 'css' : 'js'
-    // #7870
-    // The `isSelfAccepting` value is set by importAnalysis, but some
-    // assets don't go through importAnalysis.
-    if (isHTMLRequest(url) || canSkipImportAnalysis(url)) {
+    if (setIsSelfAccepting) {
       this.isSelfAccepting = false
     }
   }
@@ -182,11 +180,15 @@ export class ModuleGraph {
     return noLongerImported
   }
 
-  async ensureEntryFromUrl(rawUrl: string, ssr?: boolean): Promise<ModuleNode> {
+  async ensureEntryFromUrl(
+    rawUrl: string,
+    ssr?: boolean,
+    setIsSelfAccepting = true
+  ): Promise<ModuleNode> {
     const [url, resolvedId, meta] = await this.resolveUrl(rawUrl, ssr)
     let mod = this.urlToModuleMap.get(url)
     if (!mod) {
-      mod = new ModuleNode(url)
+      mod = new ModuleNode(url, setIsSelfAccepting)
       if (meta) mod.meta = meta
       this.urlToModuleMap.set(url, mod)
       mod.id = resolvedId