We've been crazy busy with dealing with investors, preparing for Demo Day and maintaining our current product but managed to also get out our latest feature. Two nights ago, with no announcement we released 8aweek Reports!

Its incredibly helpful to know where and when you're spending your time online. 8aweek habits lets you see that info. But until now you had to make your own conclusions of how you're doing based off of that data. 8aweek Reports now analyzes your habits for you and grades you against user averages based on these three "subjects".

Batching

This subject rates you on how well you group your time online. Ideally you would do all of your browsing in a few chunks of time during the day. Conversely its bad form to be checking your email, digg, or other sites every 5 minutes. Batching calculates the standard deviation in the time between page visits. In other words, you can put larger periods of time between your browsing sessions to improve your Batching scores.

% Restricted

Usually you don't want to be spending the majority of your time on your restricted sites. Hopefully most of your time is spent using the web productively. % Restricted measures the percentage of time you spend on your distracting sites and gives you a better grade if it is low.

Overtime

In your preferences you've set up how much time to allot yourself on your restricted sites. If you stay within that time you get an A for this subject. If you disable 8aweek or choose to cheat and go over your alloted time you start losing points in this subject quickly.

We'll be improving reports dramatically. We already have a few other subjects under development, more explanations, charts, and advice on how to improve your grades. For now you can get a small explanation by selecting the question mark next to each subject.

We think this is a big step in not just giving you the tools to control your web habits but also visualize how they're working and get tips on improving them. The calendar is also a great visual for comparing your habits on any given day to days in your past.

Many other small fixes were deployed in this release. We now finally have a feed on this development blog. On a related note, Zack and I started a new blog called Leaving Corporate where we talk about our process of leaving IBM, moving to Silicon Valley, Y Combinator, and making this product.

As always, make sure you let us know what you think and what ideas you want included in upcoming releases.