diff --git a/.github/actions/validate-docs-links/src/index.ts b/.github/actions/validate-docs-links/src/index.ts
index 41bc117ee5e9c..7ae3d71626f34 100644
--- a/.github/actions/validate-docs-links/src/index.ts
+++ b/.github/actions/validate-docs-links/src/index.ts
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ async function prepareDocumentMapEntry(
 // Checks if the links point to existing documents
 function validateInternalLink(errors: Errors, href: string): void {
   // /docs/api/example#heading -> ["api/example", "heading""]
-  const [link, hash] = href.replace("/", "").split("#", 2);
+  const [link, hash] = href.replace(DOCS_PATH, "").split("#", 2);
 
   let foundPage;