Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,318 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 980 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 866 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 861 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 671 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 577 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 520 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 399 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 359 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 285 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 276 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 12 | 250 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 13 | 237 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 14 | 234 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 15 | 233 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 218 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 17 | 202 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 18 | 183 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 19 | 182 | classic by emartech |
| 20 | 181 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 21 | 178 | date by Tieske |
| 22 | 176 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 23 | 168 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 24 | 166 | moonscript by leafo |
| 25 | 163 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 26 | 155 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 27 | 154 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 28 | 153 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |