diff --git a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
index 1b117efea..44c367854 100644
--- a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
+++ b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URL.swift
@@ -1847,7 +1847,7 @@ public struct URL: Equatable, Sendable, Hashable {
         var components = URLComponents(parseInfo: _parseInfo)
         let newPath = components.percentEncodedPath.removingDotSegments
         components.percentEncodedPath = newPath
-        return components.url(relativeTo: baseURL)!
+        return components.url(relativeTo: baseURL) ?? self
     }
 
     /// Standardizes the path of a file URL by removing dot segments.
diff --git a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
index f5ce53ae7..6eb3a6680 100644
--- a/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
+++ b/Sources/FoundationEssentials/URL/URLComponents.swift
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ public struct URLComponents: Hashable, Equatable, Sendable {
             return CFURLCreateWithString(kCFAllocatorDefault, string as CFString, nil) as URL?
         }
         #endif
-        return URL(string: string)
+        return URL(string: string, relativeTo: nil)
     }
 
     /// Returns a URL created from the URLComponents relative to a base URL.
diff --git a/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift b/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
index ed3ef5a36..1017254ac 100644
--- a/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/FoundationEssentialsTests/URLTests.swift
@@ -1405,6 +1405,12 @@ final class URLTests : XCTestCase {
         XCTAssertEqual(comp.path, "/my\u{0}path")
     }
 
+    func testURLStandardizedEmptyString() {
+        let url = URL(string: "../../../")!
+        let standardized = url.standardized
+        XCTAssertTrue(standardized.path().isEmpty)
+    }
+
 #if FOUNDATION_FRAMEWORK
     func testURLComponentsBridging() {
         var nsURLComponents = NSURLComponents(