Welcome to UAC Meter

On November 17th Human Highway has released the beta version of UAC Meter for Italy.

UAC Meter is a social amplification measurement tool which monitors on a regular basis a specific set of Publishers' Websites and records the number of likes of the most popular news articles. Updates occur every two hours.

The service is freely available to H2 Overview subscribers you need to login to see the results.


You can also browse UAC Meter results by reading youllike.it

Most amplified articles on today's online newspapers

Overall number of likes on Facebook, Twitter, Google+ per article (top 24)


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UAC Meter regularly measures the number of Tweets, Facebook likes and Plus on G+ for each article found at one click distance from the homepage of a publisher. The sum of the three numbers yields "the overall number of likes", which is presented here for each of the first 24 most liked articles now online on Newspapers' Websites. For the list of the Websites currently under measurement, please read the "UAC, what?" section

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UAC Meter regularly measures the number of Tweets, Facebook likes and Plus on G+ for each article found at one click distance from the homepage of a publisher. The sum of the three numbers yields "the overall number of likes", which is presented here for each of the first 24 most liked articles now online on Online News Websites. For the list of the Websites currently under measurement, please read the "UAC, what?" section

History

24 most popular articles in the past

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Fastest growing articles popularity

First 24 articles based on the pace of increasing popularity

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Popularity trend

Trend of the overall number of likes of the current 10 most popular articles

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Publisher Amplifying Power

Average number of the overall likes gathered by the articles of a given publisher

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UAC, what?

UAC Meter is a social amplification measurement tool which monitors on a regular basis a specific set of Web content. User content amplification (UAC) is defined as the spontaneous activity done by Internet users who decide to "like" a document in one of the three most common ways provided by social networks and tools. "Like" may happen by pressing the [I like] Facebook button doing [+1] on Google Plus or generating a Twitter's Tweet

There are many other ways to like and spread Web content though a variety of social networks but as of today UAC concentrates on this three actions.

The UAC Meter system is made by four components

  1. UAC Crawler: a web crawler spans every two hours a given set of news sites. The crawler follows all the news articles found on the sites and records some information for every page
  2. UAC Filter analyses all pages indexed by the crawler and separates news articles from all the others pages (i.e. section's homepages, service pages, pages outside publisher's domain etc.)
  3. UAC Probe: for every Web page which appears to be a news article, UAC gets its number of Facebook likes, Twitter's tweets and +1 on Google Plus and records them in the UAC Database
  4. UAC Statistics: a certain number of rules and queries in the UAC DB generate the results that are visible in the UAC Meter Reports

UAC is now working on two different jobs

  • newspapers sites: articles found on traditional (paper) publisher's Web sites
  • online news sites: articles found on online news sites which have no traditional (paper) version but are from pure digital publishers