Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 785 | LuaSocket by luarocks |
| 2 | 584 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 361 | lua-cjson by luarocks |
| 4 | 357 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 5 | 335 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 6 | 205 | penlight by steved |
| 7 | 200 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 8 | 179 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 9 | 176 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 10 | 166 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 11 | 144 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 12 | 125 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 13 | 107 | moonscript by leafo |
| 14 | 105 | dromozoa-commons by moyu |
| 15 | 94 | luajson by harningt |
| 16 | 91 | argparse by mpeterv |
| 17 | 91 | Copas by Tieske |
| 18 | 90 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 90 | lua-websockets by lipp |
| 20 | 84 | inspect by kikito |
| 21 | 83 | LuaBitOp by luarocks |
| 22 | 80 | lapis by leafo |
| 23 | 80 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 24 | 79 | WSAPI by mascarenhas |
| 25 | 74 | coronest by saucisson |
| 26 | 71 | say by olivine-labs |
| 27 | 70 | date by Tieske |
| 28 | 69 | Coxpcall by hisham |
