Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 998 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 708 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 534 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 466 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 406 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 404 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 336 | penlight by steved |
| 8 | 240 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 223 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 10 | 206 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 11 | 168 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 12 | 168 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 156 | inspect by kikito |
| 14 | 154 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 15 | 145 | argparse by mpeterv |
| 16 | 137 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 17 | 129 | date by Tieske |
| 18 | 128 | moonscript by leafo |
| 19 | 127 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 20 | 114 | uuid by Tieske |
| 21 | 113 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 22 | 112 | classic by emartech |
| 23 | 110 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 24 | 110 | luarocks-fetch-gitrec by siffiejoe |
| 25 | 110 | dromozoa-commons by moyu |
| 26 | 108 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 27 | 106 | lua-websockets by lipp |
| 28 | 105 | lapis by leafo |
