Local Storage vs Cookies

Question

I want to reduce load times on my websites by moving all cookies into local storage since they seem to have the same functionality. Are there any pros/cons (especially perfo

Answer 1

Local storage can store up to 5mb offline data, whereas session can also store up to 5 mb data. But cookies can store only 4kb data in text format.

LOCAl and Session storage data in JSON format, thus easy to parse. But cookies data is in string format.