Hi Paul,
Thanks for reaching out to us, and for considering our products for your site.
Do you have any sites that have your plugin installed with over 1000 upcoming events?
Outdoor Sports Guide site is packed with lots of events (not sure if +1000 upcoming) and loads up pretty well. Unfortunately it doesn’t use the Map View. Also I’ve been helping out a client on a performance improvement, his site has +3,500 events and it ended up working pretty fine.
Does your plugin load on pages that aren’t displaying events?
No, it shouldn’t affect other views that are not event related.
Would it be possible to display a map of events within a (home)page like this?
Yeap, the example you are showing has a customized skin for Google Maps, but apart from that I think that’s possible with Event Calendar PRO Map View.
Please let me know if your questions are answer or if you have further doubts,
Thanks,
Nico