PERSISTENT LOCAL CACHING OF IMAGE DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE

Systems and methods that utilize local storage associated with web browsers to store image data as an alphanumeric string. An expiration date may be associated with the image data such that it expires either after predetermined period of time or at a certain date. By storing image data in local storage, as a user navigates to a website, images are loaded from local storage and displayed in the web browser rather than fetching the image data from a remote source.