Hello Bar's WordPress plugin is essentially a snippet injector with targeting toggles. The API key authorises which workspace renders, the install state confirms whether the snippet actually loads, and the per-page flags decide where it shows. All three live in wp_options, which means the data is auditable without leaving WordPress, but only if you can read it across an entire network at once.

SleekView Charts treats those option rows as a chart source. A Number card pins blogs with Hello Bar installed. A Pie shows the targeting mix (all-pages vs post types vs post-tag targeted, the last added in 1.1). A Bar ranks workspaces by how many blogs point at each. An Area card plots last-edit dates so installs nobody has touched in months show as a flat shoulder on the curve.

The closed-workspace problem becomes a dedicated Number card. Any subsite whose API key no longer authorises a live workspace counts into the dead-snippet total, which is both the cleanup target and the privacy risk profile in one number.

A Hello Bar snippet that loads but renders nothing is more than a cosmetic problem. The script still executes on every visit, still attempts a network call to the workspace endpoint, and still touches whatever client-side state Hello Bar ships. For privacy reviews, that means the script is a third-party asset on every page even when no bar appears, and the data-processing record needs to either include it or remove it.

The closed-workspace pattern is unusually common in agency-managed networks where Hello Bar workspaces get archived as accounts churn but the WP-side install never gets cleaned up, because nobody owns the cleanup. The targeting story has a similar quiet-failure profile: a tag-targeted Hello Bar that worked when launched stops firing the moment the marketing team renames the tag, with no surfaced error. The chart layer fixes the visibility problem so the operational and privacy fixes can follow.