 Spherical derivative of a meromorphic function

For a meromorphic function viewed as a holomorphic map to the unit Riemann sphere, this is the length density of the pulled-back spherical metric. Its square is the pulled-back area density. At a pole use the coordinate $1/f$, which gives the same density. Some conventions omit the factor two and use a sphere of area $\pi$; all area normalizations must then change accordingly.