Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,074 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 770 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 587 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 4 | 584 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 5 | 448 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 444 | penlight by Tieske |
| 7 | 442 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 269 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 232 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 10 | 224 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 11 | 223 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 12 | 187 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 180 | inspect by kikito |
| 14 | 173 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 15 | 170 | argparse by argparse |
| 16 | 155 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 17 | 149 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 18 | 140 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 19 | 140 | date by Tieske |
| 20 | 137 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 21 | 133 | moonscript by leafo |
| 22 | 131 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 23 | 125 | Copas by Tieske |
| 24 | 125 | classic by emartech |
| 25 | 117 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 26 | 114 | uuid by Tieske |
| 27 | 113 | luarocks-fetch-gitrec by siffiejoe |
| 28 | 112 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |
