diff --git a/galleries/examples/lines_bars_and_markers/broken_barh.py b/galleries/examples/lines_bars_and_markers/broken_barh.py
index c400c67cffe4..3714ca7c748d 100644
--- a/galleries/examples/lines_bars_and_markers/broken_barh.py
+++ b/galleries/examples/lines_bars_and_markers/broken_barh.py
@@ -19,20 +19,30 @@
 
 fig, ax = plt.subplots()
 # broken_barh(xranges, (ymin, height))
-ax.broken_barh(cpu_1, (5.8, 0.4))
-ax.broken_barh(cpu_2, (4.8, 0.4))
-ax.broken_barh(cpu_3, (3.8, 0.4))
+ax.broken_barh(cpu_1, (-0.2, 0.4))
+ax.broken_barh(cpu_2, (0.8, 0.4))
+ax.broken_barh(cpu_3, (1.8, 0.4))
 ax.broken_barh(cpu_4, (2.8, 0.4))
-ax.broken_barh(disk, (1.8, 0.4), color="tab:orange")
-ax.broken_barh(network, (0.8, 0.4), color="tab:green")
+ax.broken_barh(disk, (3.8, 0.4), color="tab:orange")
+ax.broken_barh(network, (4.8, 0.4), color="tab:green")
 ax.set_xlim(0, 10)
-ax.set_yticks([6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1],
+ax.set_yticks(range(6),
               labels=["CPU 1", "CPU 2", "CPU 3", "CPU 4", "disk", "network"])
+ax.invert_yaxis()
 ax.set_title("Resource usage")
 
 plt.show()
-
 # %%
+#
+# .. admonition:: References
+#
+#    The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown
+#    in this example:
+#
+#    - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.broken_barh` / `matplotlib.pyplot.broken_barh`
+#    - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.invert_yaxis`
+#    - `matplotlib.axes.Axes.set_yticks`
+#
 # .. tags::
 #
 #    component: annotation