Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,529 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,156 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 1,039 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,033 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 793 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 660 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 594 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 463 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 434 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 382 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 307 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 12 | 296 | inspect by kikito |
| 13 | 273 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 14 | 252 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 15 | 239 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 16 | 234 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 17 | 223 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 18 | 222 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 19 | 210 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 20 | 204 | date by Tieske |
| 21 | 191 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 22 | 191 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 23 | 189 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 24 | 183 | classic by emartech |
| 25 | 178 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 26 | 177 | net-url by golgote |
| 27 | 175 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 28 | 174 | moonscript by leafo |
| 29 | 174 | lua-resty-worker-events by kong |