My Github website suddenly broke most images

[Fertmeneses]

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Hello, I've hosted my personal website in Github a few months ago:

link to website
link to repository

It's a simple website, completely static, and everything was working normally until a few days, when I noticed that most of the images are broken. Nothing changed in my Readme.md file nor my image files or directories. I double checked the commits log and there was nothing new.
What surprises me is that some of the broken image have that links are correct, I can open them directly and see the image. Other links, instead, show a HTTP ERROR 429 "This page isn’t working". In both cases, the files are stored in the same repository folder! I couldn't discover any clue of what's going on...

I appreciate any help or solutions that you may share! Thanks

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[mecodeatlas]

Welcome to the GitHub Community, @Fertmeneses, we're happy you're here! You are more likely to get a useful response if you are posting your questions in the applicable category and are explicit about what your project entails--giving a few more details might help someone give you a nudge in the right direction. I've gone ahead and moved it for you. Good luck!

[Fertmeneses]

Thanks @mecodeatlas

[Hariprashad-Ravikumar]

GitHub has started rate-limiting raw.githubusercontent.com, so pages that hot-link many images from that domain hit the new limit and the server returns HTTP 429—hence the broken thumbnails even though a single image still opens in a new tab.

Quick fix

# instead of this
![logo](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/USER/REPO/branch/img/logo.png)

# do this (move img/ into your Pages site and use a relative path)
![logo](/img/logo.png)

Files served from yourname.github.io aren’t throttled, so everything loads normally again once you commit the move.

Alternatives

• Keep the images in the repo but swap the URL to a CDN mirror, e.g.
  https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/USER/REPO@branch/img/logo.png
• Add loading="lazy" to <img> tags or split huge galleries to reduce simultaneous requests.

Push the change, give the cache a minute, and the pictures should reappear.

[Fertmeneses]

Thanks a lot @Hariprashad-Ravikumar !! I've tried the first solution, calling all images using relative paths within the repo, and that solution worked perfectly. My website is fixed now 😄

[nagelfargithub]

Is there a place we can read up on this (new?) rate-limits?

[GTazz]

@Hariprashad-Ravikumar Thank you so much, second method fixed my issue for good

[Ellajack281]

Yeah, I’ve had that happen before. In my case, it was an issue with how the image paths were written. Make sure they’re case-sensitive and relative to the repo root. Also, double-check that the images actually pushed to GitHub correctly. Sometimes they don’t upload even if it looks like they did. It’s like there are so many flavors of issues that can pop up when working with GitHub Pages!