Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,651 | LuaSocket by lunarmodules |
| 2 | 1,320 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 1,235 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 4 | 1,177 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 5 | 888 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 752 | santoku by broma0 |
| 7 | 745 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 684 | argparse by argparse |
| 9 | 650 | LuaSec by lunarmodules |
| 10 | 604 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 11 | 445 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 12 | 405 | santoku-fs by broma0 |
| 13 | 355 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 14 | 346 | inspect by kikito |
| 15 | 341 | plenary.nvim by Conni2461 |
| 16 | 289 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 17 | 276 | lua-resty-cookie by utix |
| 18 | 274 | santoku-system by broma0 |
| 19 | 248 | busted by lunarmodules |
| 20 | 245 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 21 | 245 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 22 | 235 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 23 | 233 | nvim-nio by neotest |
| 24 | 229 | date by Tieske |
| 25 | 228 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 26 | 214 | net-url by golgote |
| 27 | 211 | lua-resty-openssl by fffonion |
| 28 | 210 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 29 | 202 | lua_cliargs by lunarmodules |