Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,059 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 762 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 556 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 556 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 443 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 441 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 391 | penlight by Tieske |
| 8 | 268 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 231 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 10 | 217 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 11 | 213 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 12 | 181 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 175 | inspect by kikito |
| 14 | 173 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 15 | 166 | argparse by argparse |
| 16 | 154 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 17 | 133 | date by Tieske |
| 18 | 132 | moonscript by leafo |
| 19 | 131 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 20 | 129 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 21 | 129 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 22 | 124 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 23 | 124 | Copas by Tieske |
| 24 | 124 | classic by emartech |
| 25 | 115 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 26 | 114 | uuid by Tieske |
| 27 | 113 | luarocks-fetch-gitrec by siffiejoe |
| 28 | 111 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |
