Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,022 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 721 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 544 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 520 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 429 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 406 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 345 | penlight by steved |
| 8 | 264 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 223 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 10 | 210 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 11 | 187 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 12 | 169 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 169 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 14 | 162 | inspect by kikito |
| 15 | 151 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 16 | 149 | argparse by mpeterv |
| 17 | 133 | date by Tieske |
| 18 | 130 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 19 | 128 | moonscript by leafo |
| 20 | 122 | classic by emartech |
| 21 | 118 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 22 | 114 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 23 | 114 | uuid by Tieske |
| 24 | 114 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 25 | 113 | Copas by Tieske |
| 26 | 111 | luarocks-fetch-gitrec by siffiejoe |
| 27 | 110 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 28 | 110 | dromozoa-commons by moyu |
