What's Trending: Our First Two Months on CrackorKeep

We just crossed our first two months of real card submissions, so instead of waiting for a clean calendar month, we’re kicking off this series now.

Think of this as the launch edition. It covers 191 completed card analyses submitted between May 23, 2026 and July 18, 2026. Our next report, coming in September, will be the first to cover a single full month.

What People Are Checking

Hockey ran away with it. Among the submissions where we could confirm the sport (43 of them), close to 6 out of 10 were hockey cards, with plenty of vintage O-Pee-Chee featuring Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Doug Gilmour, Cam Neely, and Tom Barrasso.

The pattern suggests that at least one collector may have been running an entire 1980s box through the tool card by card — and honestly, that is exactly the kind of use case we built CrackorKeep for.

Basketball finished a distant second, helped by a run of Victor Wembanyama rookies. Football, Pokémon, and baseball accounted for smaller portions of the remaining submissions.

A sport tag wasn’t captured on every submission this launch window — we’re tightening that up before the next report, so future editions will cover the full submission count instead of a subset.

The Verdict Split

Of the 191 completed analyses that returned a verdict:

• 49% received “Consider It”
• 35% received “Submit to Grading”
• 16% received “Skip Grading”

The biggest takeaway is that roughly half the cards landed in the middle. They weren’t obvious grading candidates, but they weren’t obvious skips either — that’s the uncertainty CrackorKeep is built to help collectors work through before spending money on professional grading.

Average Condition Scores

Across all completed analyses, centering and edges averaged 8 out of 10, while corners and surface averaged 7 out of 10.

Corners and surface appear to be where cards lose the most ground. That’s not exactly shocking if you’ve read our PSA 10 requirements breakdown, but it’s interesting to see the same pattern show up in our own submission data.

Highest Estimated Grade

The strongest condition estimate of the period went to a 2018 Topps Luminaries José Ramírez Hit Kings Autograph #HKJR, numbered to 15. It received an AI-estimated grade of 10 — the only card during this reporting period to reach that mark.

How People Are Finding Us

This may be the most interesting number in the entire report: 63% of our sessions were attributed to an AI assistant, rather than a traditional Google search.

Collectors appear to be asking tools such as ChatGPT where they can evaluate a card before paying to have it professionally graded — and those tools are sending some of them to CrackorKeep. Direct visits and organic search accounted for most of the remaining traffic.

The Bottom Line

Two months in, hockey collectors are the clear early adopters, roughly half of submitted cards are legitimate toss-ups, and AI assistants are already our largest source of website traffic.

We’ll be back in September with our first full-month report. In the meantime, check your own card — it might appear in the next edition.

About the data: This report covers completed CrackorKeep card analyses submitted from May 23, 2026 through July 18, 2026. Failed or incomplete analyses were excluded. Repeat submissions of the same card are included. All grades and condition scores are AI-generated pre-grading estimates, not professional grading results. Website traffic-source data comes from Google Analytics 4.