If you’ve been monitoring a Facebook page recently and noticed a dip in the reach, you aren’t alone.  Facebook pages everywhere have lost some of their reach numbers, and Facebook hasn’t exactly been forthcoming with an explanation as to why.

Robin Grant, global managing director of We Are Social, explained the recent fall in reach figures in his Techcrunch.com guest blog, and the ways it’s affecting Facebook pages.

The good news is that engagement levels have remained constant.  So although fewer people might be exposed to your page’s posts, more of those who do see them are clicking.

While Facebook maintains that they didn’t reduce reach to boost Facebook ads revenue, however they do not deny that reach has been reduced.  This coincides with first-hand accounts of Facebook reaching out to firms that manage large numbers of pages, warning of the decrease in reach numbers.

When pressed about the steep drop in reach, Facebook actually sidestepped the issue:

“We’re constantly improving the way stories are shown in newsfeed. With the growing number of pages on Facebook it is important that people see content that is most relevant to them. These findings show that engagement with newsfeed posts has actually increased. At the same time, the number of posts being dismissed as uninteresting or spam has fallen. That’s a great result for page owners and an improved experience for all of us who use Facebook.”

Emphasizing that users see relevant content likely indicates that Facebook has tightened up on how often and what type of content appears in the newsfeeds of your fans.  However, like Grant, we’ll leave you to speculate about the reasoning until there’s more information.