Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 705 | LuaSocket by luarocks |
| 2 | 558 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 331 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 4 | 317 | lua-cjson by luarocks |
| 5 | 312 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 187 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 7 | 166 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 8 | 165 | penlight by steved |
| 9 | 148 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 10 | 143 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 11 | 143 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 12 | 123 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 105 | dromozoa-commons by moyu |
| 14 | 103 | moonscript by leafo |
| 15 | 94 | luajson by harningt |
| 16 | 91 | Copas by Tieske |
| 17 | 90 | lua-websockets by lipp |
| 18 | 83 | inspect by kikito |
| 19 | 82 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 20 | 79 | argparse by mpeterv |
| 21 | 79 | WSAPI by mascarenhas |
| 22 | 78 | lapis by leafo |
| 23 | 74 | coronest by saucisson |
| 24 | 71 | say by olivine-labs |
| 25 | 71 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 26 | 69 | Coxpcall by hisham |
| 27 | 68 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 28 | 67 | lua-TestMore by fperrad |
