Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,281 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 951 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 822 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 822 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 661 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 568 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 512 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 387 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 349 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 267 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 252 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 12 | 242 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 13 | 237 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 14 | 234 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 15 | 224 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 206 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 17 | 200 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 18 | 181 | classic by emartech |
| 19 | 180 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 20 | 178 | date by Tieske |
| 21 | 177 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 22 | 170 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 23 | 166 | moonscript by leafo |
| 24 | 166 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 25 | 163 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 26 | 155 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 27 | 154 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 28 | 152 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |