diff --git a/build/check-images.js b/build/check-images.js
index 46946c23cdd1..be45b75f8990 100644
--- a/build/check-images.js
+++ b/build/check-images.js
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ function checkImageReferences(doc, $, options, { url, rawContent }) {
     // a new function dedicated to that.
     let finalSrc = null;
 
-    if (!src.trim()) {
+    if (!src.split("#")[0].trim()) {
       if (checkImages) {
         addImageFlaw(img, src, {
           explanation: "Empty img 'src' attribute",
diff --git a/testing/content/files/en-us/web/empty_image/index.html b/testing/content/files/en-us/web/empty_image/index.html
index 5af0d10f280a..750bdd866dbc 100644
--- a/testing/content/files/en-us/web/empty_image/index.html
+++ b/testing/content/files/en-us/web/empty_image/index.html
@@ -8,3 +8,10 @@
   <img src="">
   Pretty nihilistic, eh?
 </p>
+
+<p>
+  This one is based on make sure we've solved:
+  <a href="https://github.com/mdn/yari/issues/3186">issue#3186</a>
+</p>
+
+<img src="#anchor">
diff --git a/testing/tests/index.test.js b/testing/tests/index.test.js
index 101baeae0722..7ef9f7198e44 100644
--- a/testing/tests/index.test.js
+++ b/testing/tests/index.test.js
@@ -970,12 +970,17 @@ test("img tags with an empty 'src' should be a flaw", () => {
   expect(fs.existsSync(builtFolder)).toBeTruthy();
   const jsonFile = path.join(builtFolder, "index.json");
   const { doc } = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(jsonFile));
-  expect(doc.flaws.images.length).toBe(1);
+  expect(doc.flaws.images.length).toBe(2);
   expect(doc.flaws.images[0].explanation).toBe("Empty img 'src' attribute");
   expect(doc.flaws.images[0].fixable).toBeFalsy();
   expect(doc.flaws.images[0].externalImage).toBeFalsy();
   expect(doc.flaws.images[0].line).toBe(8);
   expect(doc.flaws.images[0].column).toBe(13);
+  expect(doc.flaws.images[1].explanation).toBe("Empty img 'src' attribute");
+  expect(doc.flaws.images[1].fixable).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(doc.flaws.images[1].externalImage).toBeFalsy();
+  expect(doc.flaws.images[1].line).toBe(17);
+  expect(doc.flaws.images[1].column).toBe(11);
 });
 
 test("img with the image_widths flaw", () => {