diff --git a/src/js/thirdparty/ws.js b/src/js/thirdparty/ws.js
index 53e6b9e88b..2b86283300 100644
--- a/src/js/thirdparty/ws.js
+++ b/src/js/thirdparty/ws.js
@@ -747,10 +747,14 @@ class BunWebSocketMocked extends EventEmitter {
     if (this.#state === 1) {
       const compress = opts?.compress;
       data = normalizeData(data, opts);
+      // send returns:
+      // 1+ - The number of bytes sent is always the byte length of the data never less
+      // 0 - dropped due to backpressure (not sent)
+      // -1 - enqueue the data internaly
+      // we dont need to do anything with the return value here
       const written = this.#ws.send(data, compress);
-
-      if (written == -1) {
-        // backpressure
+      if (written === 0) {
+        // dropped
         this.#enquedMessages.push([data, compress, cb]);
         this.#bufferedAmount += data.length;
         return;
diff --git a/test/js/first_party/ws/ws.test.ts b/test/js/first_party/ws/ws.test.ts
index 7bb540c1e9..b79e90879b 100644
--- a/test/js/first_party/ws/ws.test.ts
+++ b/test/js/first_party/ws/ws.test.ts
@@ -454,3 +454,49 @@ async function listen(): Promise<URL> {
   }
   throw new Error("No URL found?");
 }
+it("WebSocketServer should handle backpressure", async () => {
+  const { promise, resolve, reject } = Promise.withResolvers();
+  const PAYLOAD_SIZE = 64 * 1024;
+  const ITERATIONS = 10;
+  const payload = Buffer.alloc(PAYLOAD_SIZE, "a");
+  let received = 0;
+
+  const wss = new WebSocketServer({ port: 0 });
+
+  wss.on("connection", function connection(ws) {
+    ws.onerror = reject;
+
+    let i = 0;
+
+    async function commit(err?: Error) {
+      if (err) {
+        reject(err);
+        return;
+      }
+      await Bun.sleep(10);
+
+      if (i < ITERATIONS) {
+        i++;
+        ws.send(payload, commit);
+      } else {
+        ws.close();
+      }
+    }
+
+    commit(undefined);
+  });
+
+  try {
+    const ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:" + wss.address().port);
+    ws.onmessage = event => {
+      received += event.data.byteLength;
+    };
+    ws.onclose = resolve;
+    ws.onerror = reject;
+    await promise;
+
+    expect(received).toBe(PAYLOAD_SIZE * ITERATIONS);
+  } finally {
+    wss.close();
+  }
+});