diff --git a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLImageElement.cpp b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLImageElement.cpp
index 75cf9b4586..d17b0c63cf 100644
--- a/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLImageElement.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Libraries/LibWeb/HTML/HTMLImageElement.cpp
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ void HTMLImageElement::parse_attribute(const FlyString& name, const String& valu
 {
     HTMLElement::parse_attribute(name, value);
 
-    if (name == HTML::AttributeNames::src)
+    if (name == HTML::AttributeNames::src && !value.is_empty())
         m_image_loader.load(document().complete_url(value));
 }