I also use awstats from Debian if that makes a difference (it does for me on Ubuntu 22). You may be using 7.8.2.
7.9 seem to be better even for your other post (Virtualmin AWstats GeoIP configuration bug and solution)
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/awstats/awstats_7.9-1_all.deb