this is not so good but there is a downtrend at least. Putting in those hacks is cumbersome. source: http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2008/9/2/browser-stats-august-2008.html
Most of my code has now been written so many times with ie6 hacks in it that its just become part of my life! That sentence makes me very sad....
His numbers are just traffic for that site. I find his numbers typical for less technically inclined websites (like hotels) My own numbers on the various sites I host, at least according to webalizer, run anywhere from 50% to 80% for IE overall, and of IE one site is seeing 60% of IE traffic being 6/earlier, while another site isn't even seeing 10% traffic from IE 6/earlier. It all hinges on the site you are analyzing and the userbase. Slashdot for example is not going to see anywhere near as many IE visitors as MSN Games. Which is why 'stats' sites on the whole are pretty much meaningless on averages as they rarely tell you the divergence of said averages. One can assume they are averaging a bunch of heavy traffic sites, but without including the 'lows' and 'highs' of each, the average is pretty much meaningless to developers... Developers who should be basing their own planning on the numbers of their own sites, not some meaningless average of websites that might be the exact opposite of your own target audience.
56% is pretty bad news, well it would be for me cause i couldn't give a **** about IE6 i'm just hoping it will fade out, i prefer future-proof sites rather than past-proof. I thought there IE 6 should update automatically with windows update anyway.
Then there are the guys who masquerade as googlebot just to check on their competitors to see if they are doing anything sneaky.