diff --git a/addons/website/models/website.py b/addons/website/models/website.py
index 6d64b0f54d9..59aeeaeba4a 100644
--- a/addons/website/models/website.py
+++ b/addons/website/models/website.py
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ class Website(models.Model):
         website_id = self.env.context.get('website_id', False)
         if website_id:
             domain_static = [('website_id', 'in', (False, website_id))]
-        while self.env['website.page'].with_context(active_test=False).sudo().search([('key', '=', key_copy)] + domain_static):
+        while self.env['ir.ui.view'].with_context(active_test=False).sudo().search([('key', '=', key_copy)] + domain_static):
             inc += 1
             key_copy = string + (inc and "-%s" % inc or "")
         return key_copy
diff --git a/addons/website/tests/test_page.py b/addons/website/tests/test_page.py
index fdb121489ae..f967d44be5e 100644
--- a/addons/website/tests/test_page.py
+++ b/addons/website/tests/test_page.py
@@ -1,14 +1,15 @@
 # Part of Odoo. See LICENSE file for full copyright and licensing details.
 
-from unittest.mock import patch
-from odoo.http import root
 from lxml import html
+from unittest.mock import patch
 
+from odoo.addons.website.controllers.main import Website
+from odoo.addons.website.tools import MockRequest
+from odoo.fields import Command
+from odoo.http import root
 from odoo.tests import common, HttpCase, tagged
 from odoo.tests.common import HOST
 from odoo.tools import config, mute_logger
-from odoo.addons.website.tools import MockRequest
-from odoo.fields import Command
 
 
 @tagged('-at_install', 'post_install')
@@ -490,3 +491,14 @@ class WithContext(HttpCase):
         r2 = self.url_open('/Page_1', allow_redirects=False)
         self.assertEqual(r2.status_code, 303, "URL exists only in different casing, should redirect to it")
         self.assertTrue(r2.headers.get('Location').endswith('/page_1'), "Should redirect /Page_1 to /page_1")
+
+@tagged('-at_install', 'post_install')
+class TestNewPage(common.TransactionCase):
+    def test_new_page_used_key(self):
+        website = self.env.ref('website.default_website')
+        controller = Website()
+        with MockRequest(self.env, website=website):
+            controller.pagenew(path="snippets")
+        pages = self.env['website.page'].search([('url', '=', '/snippets')])
+        self.assertEqual(len(pages), 1, "Exactly one page should be at /snippets.")
+        self.assertNotEqual(pages.key, "website.snippets", "Page's key cannot be website.snippets.")