diff --git a/packages/metascraper-manifest/test/snapshots/index.js.snap b/packages/metascraper-manifest/test/snapshots/index.js.snap
index acb93c1b0..fb10027c7 100644
Binary files a/packages/metascraper-manifest/test/snapshots/index.js.snap and b/packages/metascraper-manifest/test/snapshots/index.js.snap differ
diff --git a/packages/metascraper/src/index.js b/packages/metascraper/src/index.js
index ebd96d267..9dba4260a 100644
--- a/packages/metascraper/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/metascraper/src/index.js
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 'use strict'
 
 const { isUrl } = require('@metascraper/helpers')
+const { load } = require('cheerio')
 const whoops = require('whoops')
 
 const { loadRules, mergeRules } = require('./rules')
-const loadHTML = require('./load-html')
 const getData = require('./get-data')
 
 const MetascraperError = whoops('MetascraperError')
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ module.exports = rules => {
   const loadedRules = loadRules(rules)
   return async ({
     url,
-    html,
+    html = '',
     rules: inlineRules,
     validateUrl = true,
     ...props
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ module.exports = rules => {
 
     return getData({
       url,
-      htmlDom: loadHTML(html),
+      htmlDom: load(html, { baseURI: url }),
       rules: mergeRules(inlineRules, loadedRules),
       ...props
     })
diff --git a/packages/metascraper/src/load-html.js b/packages/metascraper/src/load-html.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ec0b73f36..000000000
--- a/packages/metascraper/src/load-html.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-'use strict'
-
-const cheerio = require('cheerio')
-
-module.exports = (html = '') => cheerio.load(html)