Top depended upon modules
| Rank | Depended on count | Module |
| 1 | 1,261 | LuaSocket by LuaSocket |
| 2 | 929 | LuaFileSystem by hisham |
| 3 | 805 | lua-resty-http by pintsized |
| 4 | 799 | lua-cjson by OpenResty |
| 5 | 644 | penlight by Tieske |
| 6 | 565 | LPeg by gvvaughan |
| 7 | 508 | LuaSec by brunoos |
| 8 | 374 | dkjson by dhkolf |
| 9 | 346 | lua-resty-jwt by cdbattags |
| 10 | 259 | argparse by argparse |
| 11 | 248 | luaposix by gvvaughan |
| 12 | 237 | ansicolors by kikito |
| 13 | 235 | lua-resty-cookie by calio |
| 14 | 233 | LuaCrypto by starius |
| 15 | 222 | inspect by kikito |
| 16 | 196 | busted by olivine-labs |
| 17 | 195 | MD5 by tomasguisasola |
| 18 | 180 | bit32 by siffiejoe |
| 19 | 179 | classic by emartech |
| 20 | 174 | date by Tieske |
| 21 | 172 | lyaml by gvvaughan |
| 22 | 170 | lua-resty-openidc by hans.zandbelt |
| 23 | 165 | moonscript by leafo |
| 24 | 162 | lua-resty-jit-uuid by thibaultcha |
| 25 | 160 | lua_cliargs by amireh |
| 26 | 153 | lbase64 by ignacio |
| 27 | 152 | luaossl by daurnimator |
| 28 | 150 | kong-lib-logger by emartech |