A pet sitting site that adds up the visits before you book

A trip, a dog and a key

The person this site is for is about to leave town and hand a stranger a key. They have two questions. Can this person be trusted with the house, and what will it cost for the days I'm gone? A pet sitter's page has to answer the first with how the work is done and the second with numbers.

So the home page opens with the promise, "Your pets stay home. We come to them," and a book button for a free meet-and-greet. Below it are three services with their example prices, from $22 a walk, from $25 a visit and from $75 a night, and the page says plainly that the prices are examples.

A planner that shows its math

On the Services page, a section called "Going away? See what the visits add up to." asks for the days away (1 to 14, with plus and minus buttons), dog walks a day (none to 3), drop-in visits a day (none to 2) and whether someone stays overnight, one night for each day away. It opens on 3 days and one walk a day, which reads "Dog walks, 3 walks, $66, $22 × 3" and a total of $66. Set it to 5 days with 2 walks, 1 drop-in and the overnight, and it lists 10 walks at $220, 5 visits at $125 and 5 nights at $375, for $720.

Every line shows the example price multiplied by the count, so an owner can check the total with a thumb on the screen. A note under it says the prices are examples and a real quote comes after the free meet-and-greet. If nothing is picked, the table gives way to a line asking for at least one walk, visit or overnight.

Prices the planner can't change

The planner holds no prices of its own. Its script reads each number from the service cards on the same page, so the cards and the planner can't disagree, and if a price can't be read the planner stays hidden. The days field takes only whole numbers from 1 to 14. Type 20 and a message saying "Enter 1 to 14 days." appears when the visitor leaves the field, and the estimate keeps its last good figure. The heading above the result is a polite live region, so a screen reader announces the new day count. The form sends nothing and stores nothing.

Showing a visit note before the first visit

The home page includes an example visit note, labeled as one: "Tuesday, 12:10 pm. Biscuit had a 30-minute walk around the pond, ate all his lunch and took his pill in a bit of cheese." It sits beside a four-step outline: a free meet-and-greet at home, the keys, the visit and the note. The key step says the tag carries a number and never the address.

The note is labeled as an example, so it shows what an owner receives without presenting itself as a real customer's.

A small area and a loop with a pause button

The demo names four towns, Riverview, Gibsonton, Apollo Beach and Ruskin, "close enough to come back twice a day," and tells anyone outside them to ask, with a travel fee quoted before anything is booked.

Beside the planner link on the home page, a short loop of a ginger cat asleep in a basket plays on its own only while it's on screen and only for a visitor who hasn't asked their device for reduced motion. A Play and Pause button lets anyone stop or start it at any time. If the script doesn't run, the loop shows as a still image and the button stays hidden.

A made-up sitter, and what a real one would change

Every page opens with a bar saying Saltmarsh Paws is not a real business. The footer says prices, hours and contact details are examples and credits the photographers of the licensed Pexels stock. The demo is set to noindex.

A real sitter would change four things. The prices and the four towns would be hers. The example visit note would give way to a real one with the client's permission and a real photo. The answers about keys, medication and bad weather would be her own policies, since they describe how she works. And anything about the animals she will and won't take would come from her, because I design the site and I'm not the pet professional.

The measured scores

PageSpeed Insights, mobile, October 22, 2026. I ran the live demo's home page through Google's PageSpeed Insights three times on mobile and saved all three reports. The medians are 99 for Performance, 100 for Accessibility, 100 for Best Practices and 69 for SEO. The Performance runs were 99, 99 and 97, so all three were 90 or more. SEO reads 69 because the one check that fails is "Page is blocked from indexing": every concept site carries a noindex tag on purpose, so search engines don't list a business that isn't real.