so, first I want to say that it was really hard to enter the site, gave me an error at least 3 times, it happens everytime I try to enter the site… so I haven’t been visiting as much, but now I finally could enter so here is my question!

In facebook pages, facebook gives you a number of the people who ‘saw your post’,but the number doesn’t make sense to me… how does facebook get this number? it’s the number of time people saw this in their timeline, does it consider interaction?

It just doesn’t sense because I have some posts with a ’100 people saw this’and then you look at the likes and I have 200 likes… so obviously more than 100 saw it! so can someone explain it to me, please?

I need a more precise answer, I have statistics of all of my facebook pages and it doesn’t makes sense to me in numbers…

@hytare we know that  facebook  doesnt show our posts to everyone who liked our page…..  several  threads on that subject   on   here….they somehow  decide who  gets to see   your post….  very  frustrating…

Thank you for taking the time to answer! @andrea-vahl I have to say that the site is a lot faster now, but… I’m having problems when writing comments… I’m currently writing from the right to the left… it feels really weird lol! I see the text going to the other direction, I wonder how it’s going show up here lol
about my question, then  @alexandrabriggs if then if they didn’t see my post in their news feed and didn’t enter my page (facebook says that organic and viral views count in that numer) how did they saw to actually like it? Can you like a post without actually reading it? it just doesn’t make sense…
now I have a post with 16 views and 30 likes… so where did that people liked it so that facebook didn’t count it? I’m confused lol! thank you for taking the time to reply!

@andrea-vahl I read the article and I loved it! you explained everything clearly and even when I knew the information in a general sense, I didn’t in detail, it helped me a lot to understand facebook. But it doesn’t answer my question.. I think what happend to my page was a facebook bug

I think this particular feature is not the most transparent Facebook has created and for a lot of people it doesn’t make sense. 
What is good to follow for me is to try to coordinate my efforts to convert a Facebook page audience when they become more active. As the PTAT number is a weekly average, it gives you some days to see how things are going and use it to your advantage. When I talk about converting I mean trying to capture their emails from a contest or subscribe to an event, webinar, download a report or whatever.

But, as everyone would agree, the PTAT is not a good reference to take into consideration. 

Thanks!Max.

I had always wondered this! It’s a shame that Facebook only allows a certain amount of people to see your posts. There is an option for your likers to change that but it’s the task of making them all modify their settings which is a bit tricky!

Thanks everyone for clearing this up.

Ellie, Online Marketing Executive, Sedna LED Ltd