Matomo for WordPress runs a full Matomo instance inside your WordPress database. Visits land in matomo_log_visit, individual actions in matomo_log_link_visit_action, the action dictionary in matomo_log_action, and goal completions in matomo_log_conversion, with country, referrer, device, and timestamp on each row. The plugin renders these as pre-built Matomo reports, which is great until you want to reshape the layout per team.

SleekView Charts reads the same tables and lets you build chart cards on top: a Number for total visits this month, a Donut for country distribution, a Bar for the busiest URLs joined to the action dictionary, an Area for daily visits over the last 30 days. Each card is a saved query against the live Matomo log, not a snapshot.

The Matomo recording layer stays exactly as is. Tracking still flows through the bundled Matomo JS, archiving still rolls up into the standard Matomo summary tables, and SleekView simply gives editors and SEO leads a reporting surface they can build, save, and share without learning the Matomo UI.

Matomo for WordPress wins on the recording side. Every visit stays in your database, the bundled JS is GDPR-friendly out of the box, and the standard Matomo reports cover the obvious questions. Where teams hit a wall is when an editor wants a single dashboard that shows last month's visits, top URLs, top countries, and a daily trend, all at the same time and shareable with a client.

SleekView Charts closes that gap by treating the matomo_log_* tables as a real dataset. Editors get a daily visits trend they can glance at, SEO leads get a top URLs bar and a country donut for the same date range, and agencies get a saved dashboard per client that travels with the user role. The bundled Matomo keeps doing what it does best, and the reading finally feels like reporting.