Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,244 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 916 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 790 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 788 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 627 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 554 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 500 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 364 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 339 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 250 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 235 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 12 | 233 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 13 | 233 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 14 | 229 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 15 | 219 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 193 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 17 | 193 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 18 | 180 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 169 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 20 | 166 | classic by emartech |
| 21 | 165 | moonscript by leafo |
| 22 | 165 | date by Tieske |
| 23 | 163 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 24 | 158 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 25 | 154 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 26 | 149 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 27 | 144 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 28 | 139 | Copas by Tieske |