Ultimate Member is structurally a usermeta-driven plugin. Account status (account_status), last login (_um_last_login), registration form fields, and any add-on values land as rows in wp_usermeta keyed by user_id. The user record itself lives in wp_users with the registration timestamp in user_registered.

The default Ultimate Member admin shows approval queues and member directories, but no charts. Site owners who want to track signup velocity, approval-queue length over time, or the distribution of members across registration-form values either build a custom dashboard or pay for a generic analytics plugin that doesn't understand the usermeta schema.

SleekView Charts aggregates over wp_users and joins wp_usermeta for the field values that matter. A Number card holds total approved members. An Area card shows signups per day from user_registered. A Pie shows account-status distribution. A Bar ranks members per role or per registration-form value. The dashboard refreshes against the live tables, so the approval queue length on the chart matches the queue length in the moderation table.

Membership health is a velocity question. Signups per week up or down compared to last month, approval backlog growing or shrinking relative to the moderation team's capacity, member-per-role mix shifting as the site adds new tiers. Ultimate Member has all the data in wp_users and wp_usermeta, but exposes it as queues and directories rather than trends.

Site owners who want trends turn to spreadsheets or paid analytics, and the dashboards drift away from the operational tables. SleekView Charts runs against the same tables the moderation queue uses, so the approval-count card matches the queue length on the moderator's screen. The trend stays honest and the team works from one source rather than two reconciled dashboards.