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I am facing a strange issue, i did audit my website and noticed score has gone down in last few months upon checking i notice it reports 403 error on almost every page for image link https://www.example.com/images/page/ while my normal image path is https://www.example.com/images/page/f561a540-fba4-463d-8884-dd6d3e87sd9.jpg I cross checked all the source code however i am not able to find any broken link on the page as https://www.example.com/images/page/

i inspected in web developer tool but no such error is noticed as all assets are loaded and i don't seen any 403 error.

I did another ahref audit however it reports same 403 error for https://www.example.com/images/page/ i am not sure what is causing this any idea what could be causing this or any pointer as all assets load when i test them on chrome dev tools.

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    Commented Aug 20 at 11:09

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It seems that the audit tool is mistakenly trying to access a directory (/images/page/) instead of specific image files, leading to 403 errors. Since your actual image paths are correct, this might be an issue with how the tool is crawling your site. You might want to check if there's an incorrect link or consider blocking access to that directory if it's not supposed to be accessed directly.

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