Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,123 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 812 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 653 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 4 | 619 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 5 | 524 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 469 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 7 | 454 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 8 | 302 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 263 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 233 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 11 | 224 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 12 | 197 | inspect by kikito |
| 13 | 193 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 14 | 180 | argparse by argparse |
| 15 | 175 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 16 | 173 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 17 | 172 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 18 | 161 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 153 | date by Tieske |
| 20 | 151 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 21 | 149 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 22 | 143 | classic by emartech |
| 23 | 137 | moonscript by leafo |
| 24 | 136 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 25 | 132 | Copas by Tieske |
| 26 | 128 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |
| 27 | 118 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 28 | 118 | luaossl by daurnimator |
