Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,187 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 853 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 678 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 4 | 658 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 5 | 551 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 482 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 477 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 310 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 281 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 233 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 11 | 228 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 12 | 213 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 13 | 202 | argparse by argparse |
| 14 | 200 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 15 | 200 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 181 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 17 | 176 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 18 | 162 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 159 | date by Tieske |
| 20 | 158 | classic by emartech |
| 21 | 157 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 22 | 154 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 23 | 151 | moonscript by leafo |
| 24 | 139 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 25 | 139 | Copas by Tieske |
| 26 | 137 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |
| 27 | 133 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 28 | 124 | luaossl by daurnimator |
