Install community portal on subdomain, different domain, or same?

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Hi, I’m hoping someone might have any insights into this beginner level question.

I have a near completed website for a local independent restaurant. I’m currently stockpiling content for a yet to be live blog- but I’d like to also include a “community portal” using something like Buddy Press to add additional interactive features.

Taking pagespeed into account, would creating a subdomain for this prevent any bloat from bleeding into the rest of the website?

Would it if I didn’t create a subdomain? I just know woocommerce will effect performance of an entire site if installed (which I intend to add a small, very basic, and not a priority woocommerce shop for branded merchandise down the line and expect to make that its own subdomain or just use a very similar domain to host just the store so wooocommerce bloat doesn’t add load time to the main website).

This community portal though would be beneficial for SEO, which is why I’m unsure how to go about this because it will include additional plugins such as buddy press, mycred, etc that I don’t want effecting performance of the rest of the website here.

Novice here. This is my first WP build I’ve taken live- though it still needs work, so please be patient. Help is very much appreciated!

Thanks.

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