Novashare positions itself as the lightweight social-share plugin: small JS footprint, fast button rendering, and accurate share counts via direct network APIs and click tracking for networks that no longer expose public counts. Counts and click totals live as postmeta keys (novashare_shares, novashare_jsonld_shares) on each post, refreshed on a configurable cache interval.

SleekView reads those keys and pivots them into a sortable grid: one row per post, columns for each tracked network's shares, columns for click totals where Novashare's click-tracking is enabled, plus standard post columns (title, author, date, post type). The Click column is what makes this useful beyond what plain share counts give: when Twitter and other networks no longer return public counts, click tracking is the surrogate metric, and surfacing it inline alongside counted networks gives editorial a complete distribution picture.

The Last refresh column is the freshness anchor. Novashare refreshes counts on its configured cache duration and the postmeta value reflects the last successful refresh. Tag rows older than the cache window and a stale-count check becomes a saved view rather than a per-post inspection. Editorial reports stop quoting yesterday's numbers as today's by accident.

Novashare's pitch is performance: small JS footprint, fast button rendering, accurate counts where networks still expose them, click tracking where they don't. The plugin nails the front-end half. The reporting half is a Top Posts widget and a per-post counter that mostly serve to verify the buttons work, not to drive editorial strategy.

Without a queryable surface over the postmeta keys Novashare maintains, the tracking is observable but not usable: zero-share posts hide in the long tail, click totals exist only as page-level numbers, and per-author or per-post-type analysis requires a spreadsheet pivot. SleekView reads novashare_shares and the click-tracking meta directly and pivots them into a sortable grid: per-network columns, click totals, derived totals, freshness flags, and standard post fields like author, post type, and date. The same data Novashare's lightweight buttons collect becomes a queryable, filterable, exportable editorial surface, which is the difference between a plugin that tracks shares and a plugin whose tracking actually changes editorial decisions.