Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,459 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,076 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 966 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 4 | 954 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 5 | 732 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 612 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 567 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 440 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 410 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 329 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 286 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 12 | 265 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 13 | 258 | inspect by kikito |
| 14 | 243 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 15 | 236 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 16 | 234 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 17 | 209 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 18 | 204 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 19 | 192 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 20 | 190 | date by Tieske |
| 21 | 184 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 22 | 183 | classic by emartech |
| 23 | 182 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 24 | 181 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 25 | 173 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 26 | 170 | moonscript by leafo |
| 27 | 168 | net-url by golgote |
| 28 | 166 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 29 | 161 | lua-resty-worker-events by kong |